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Can Litigation Hold Top Universities to Promises of Meritocracy?
A recent class action filed against Columbia University is the latest in a stream of lawsuits against elite institutions in the past few years. What has motivated our current litigious climate against highly ranked universities? Class action complaints have alleged…
Will the Future of Abortion Litigation Rest on Religious Freedom Claims?
The summer’s news cycle has been dominated by stories of supreme and state court rulings eroding social protections secured by landmark cases over past decades. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by way of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
When Infrastructure Expires: The Fight Over Dams in New Hampshire Mill Towns
Exeter’s colonial buildings look the same as they did ten years ago, but the town sounds different now. There’s a gushing noise in the background as if someone’s breathing through their teeth. For over one hundred years, the Exeter River…
Texas’s Outmoded Electrical Grid is Designed to Fail
Texas prides itself on its individuality, and its energy system most certainly matches that characterization; cut off from the Eastern and Western U.S. power grids, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, runs 90% of Texas’s power independently. Save…
Conflicted Interests: Corporate Prosecution and the Endowment
On the morning of April 25th, Steven Donziger drove to a halfway house in Manhattan to finalize his release papers. Upon his arrival, corrections employees used heavy-duty scissors to cut off the bulky plastic tracking anklet from his blue-jean clad…
In the Sacklers’ Backyard: The Future of Connecticut’s Opioid Epidemic Response
Liz Fitzgerald had been waiting for this. It was March 10th, 2022, and she suddenly found herself speaking before the family that had upended her life and robbed her of two children. Fitzgerald has lost two sons to opioid addiction….
Heating Up: Miami’s Tech Renaissance Takes Off
Delian Asparouhov was an unlikely origin for an unlikely movement. An MIT dropout, he’s worked for a little over three years at the venture capital firm Founders Fund, led by Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois—two deities of the tech world….
The Price of Dissent: National Security Whistleblower Prosecutions in the Obama Administration
John Kiriakou bends over the webcam. He wears a black sweater that matches the top of his salt-and-pepper hair and the outline of his wide glasses. His manner is affable, but he speaks with the intensity that one might expect of a man who would risk imprisonment to leak state secrets to the press.