Professor of Law, Cuny Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
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"PWBM projects Trump’s tariffs (April 8, 2025) will reduce long-run GDP by about 6% and wages by 5%. A middle-income household faces a $22K lifetime loss. These losses are twice as large as a revenue-equivalent corporate tax increase from 21% to 36%, an otherwise highly distorting tax." #EconSky
Pro-Palestinian Protesters at the Venice Film Festival Raise Gaza War - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/a...
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performance in London interrupted by pro-Palestine protestors | Australia news | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Culture Crash open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
RIP - Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
New Trump Order Among ‘Scariest Things I’ve Seen in US Politics,’ Civil Rights Attorney Says scheerpost.com/2025/08/27/n...
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICJ can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide? prismreports.org/2025/08/14/i...
The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
182 Royal Ballet and Opera staff denounce “genocide in Gaza,” forcing cancellation of Tel Aviv Tosca production - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
Trump order aims to politicize decisions on federal science grants | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Judge strikes down key parts of Florida law that led to book removal from libraries - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Federal judge declares Education Department’s attempt to bar diversity programs unlawful - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
In Open Letter, More Than 360 Academics Blast Cancellation of Harvard Educational Review Issue on Palestine | News | The Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
RIP - Gerry Spence, legendary trial lawyer who fought to 'free the people of this country from the slavery of its new corporate masters,' dies at 96 | Fortune fortune.com/2025/08/15/g...
Putin’s opening line was probably, “If you need help releasing the Epstein files, I can always give out my copy.”
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
No PhD admissions for Middle Eastern Studies at UChicago in 2026. MES includes modern and all aspects of the ancient Near East: cuneiform languages, Egyptology, archaeology 🏺 www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
If 25% of the population of potential jurors believes that a certain thing should not be a crime, then there is a 95% chance a random 12 person jury won’t convict
The Mamdani effect: how his win spurred more than 10,000 progressives to consider run for office | Zohran Mamdani | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Secretary Duffy is trying to ban all federal funding for bicycle infrastructure. Reminder: the federal highway administration exists because bicycle advocates organized a “good roads” movement in the 1890s. www.regulations.gov/document/DOT...
Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Largest Civilian Flotilla in History’ To Set Sail for Gaza scheerpost.com/2025/08/07/l...
Spain Is an Example to the World- The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
It Is Not Enough for States to Abolish the Death Penalty by Statute or Judicial Decree; They Must Make It Unconstitutional: verdict.justia.com/2025/08/06/i...
AI Code Red: Why Libraries Will Matter More Than Ever – Cloaking Inequity cloakinginequity.com/2025/08/06/a...
Chief Actuary Says Trump-GOP Budget Law Will 'Worsen' Social Security's Finances | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/social-...
The Voting Rights Act turned 60 — the Supreme Court is carving it up www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
How the world can free itself from US financial colonialism: Economist Michael Hudson explains open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Academic Freedom: How Universities Lost Their Way washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/05/a...
Documentary film This is Gaza: “We are trapped, not just physically, but in a siege of silence and suffocation” - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump is Getting Desperate open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
How the Supreme Court enabled the Texas-California redistricting fight www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
The Trump Admin’s Embrace of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Fair question: Why did the Stanford Daily have to do this? Why not Stanford University?
When student newspapers have clearer and bolder moral vision than university leaders.
ABA Eyes Reducing Board Size, Trimming Diversity Seats - Law360 www.law360.com/productliabi...
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New Yorkers who got trapped in a costly gym membership could be eligible for cash - Gothamist gothamist.com/news/new-yor...
With Trump wreaking havoc, a question for the US Democrats: when will you ever learn? | Timothy Garton Ash | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump | Wall Street Journal | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY jacobin.com/2025/07/zion...
Down Goes Brown www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/07/down...
Capitulation at Columbia: The Democrats enable Trump’s assault on free speech - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The optics of the Trump-EU deal were humiliating, and optics matter. If you examine the substance, however, it starts to look as if Europe played Trump for a fool. Specifically, a fossil fool." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Blanche's 'Odd' Visits With Child Trafficker Maxwell Are Indefensible - National Memo www.nationalmemo.com/todd-blanche...
I Coulda Made a Better Deal open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Calling Out The Con Man-in-Chief open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
The Age-Gated Internet Is Here mailchi.mp/reason.com/t...
Abolishing the First Amendment open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
Trump Waging War Against Blue States and Cities open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The Gaza Riviera open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
A Constitutional Redline | David Cole, Daniel Drake | The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Where Giorgia Meloni Is Leading Europe | TIME time.com/7304882/gior...
Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE, Speaks Out hammerandhope.org/article/geor...
Originalism and the Insular Cases - Constitutional Law conlaw.jotwell.com/originalism-...
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Musk’s Neuralink falsified federal forms, claims to qualify for racial diversity program popular.info/p/musks-neur...
Harvard Education Review Censorship Is a Dangerous Precedent cloakinginequity.com/2025/07/25/h...
American Jews were played — now what? forward.com/opinion/7564...
The US Congress Is Surrendering Its Last Real Power - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
How the Trump Administration is Constructing Jewishness - LPE Project lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...
Three things to watch after UN climate ruling www.axios.com/2025/07/24/u...
Ripples from #ICJ climate ruling will be felt across the board. @amywestervelt.bsky.social & I track implications for climate denying Republican leadership in the US, multinational corporations & investment treaties (ISDS) that so far favoured fossil fuels & what 1.5°C means drilled.media/news/ijc-1
‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The End of Academic Freedom (w/ Maura Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
Libraries are feeling the cost burden of e-book popularity | The Week theweek.com/culture-life...
Chicago Wins Dismissal of Trump Suit Over Sanctuary City Policy - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
SCOTUS is enabling Trump's assault on American institutions open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left jacobin.com/2025/07/balt...
Dell’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide scheerpost.com/2025/07/23/d...
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
What Trump and Pam Bondi are doing in New Jersey is a huge deal. slate.com/news-and-pol...
‘When I took the bar…’ - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School hls.harvard.edu/today/when-i...
How Bad is the Columbia Settlement Agreement? www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/07/how-...
Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”
New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes jacobin.com/2025/07/cwcp...
The demise of Trump’s lawsuit against Bob Woodward offers a reminder to his other targets www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication | Harvard University | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"...people will remember Harvard as the school that stood up to tyranny. Penn — if this pattern continues — will be remembered as the school that welcomed it with open arms... More threats will come, and when they do, our students deserve active protections rather than silent concessions."
"Senator Murkowski could have saved many millions of Americans from losing their health care and food assistance and local hospitals, but she pushed in all her chips on a deal that was reneged by Trump almost immediately after the vote was finalized."
In 2010, the Supreme Court decided the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments, allowing states to enact more permissive gun laws. Since then, there have been 6,000+ excess firearm deaths among children in states with the most permissive gun laws, according to a new study. 1/3
A photograph of Japanese Americans at a picnic somewhere in Washington. The photograph was taken on July 21, 1940. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD
Stefanik’s latest battle doesn’t fight antisemitism; it attacks due process thehill.com/opinion/educ...
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall? - Grist | Grist grist.org/project/indi...
A statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va. - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...
Reimagining Global Power: Vijay Prashad on the BRICS 2025 Summit and a Shifting World Order open.substack.com/pub/codepink...
Opinion | Texas gutted free speech on college campuses. Is your state next? - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Tax on AI and crypto could fund climate action, says former Paris accords envoy | Climate crisis | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
1 in 5 top Trump picks held crypto, some worth millions, Post finds - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
One in four need work if we calculate a “true” unemployment rate « Systemic Disorder systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/o...
Building Wealth: How “Trump Accounts” Wrecked a Great Idea washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/b...
In Colombia, The Hague Group Charges Israel With Genocide open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...