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The Law-Breaking Supreme Court: On Stephen Vladeck’s “The Shadow Docket”

Andrew Koppelman reviews Stephen Vladeck’s “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”...

ANDREW KOPPELMAN

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

The Way We Have Always Done It: On Thomas G. Moukawsher’s “The Common Flaw”

Judge Brad Seligman reviews Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher’s critique of civil litigation, “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It.”...

BRAD SELIGMAN

LAW

POLITICS

When the Dust Won’t Settle: Stories of Syrian War and Earthquake Survivors

Elle Kurancid writes about the aftermath of the earthquake in Syria, with documentary photographs by Walaa Alshaer....

ELLE KURANCID, WALAA ALSHAER

LAW

POLITICS

Art, Law, and Commerce in the Metaverse: On Three New Stories of NFTs

Jessica Rizzo reviews three new books discussing where NFTs came from, where they are going, and whether we should follow—Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams’s “The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy,” Edward Lee’s “Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment,” Omar Kholeif’s “Internet Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs.”...

JESSICA RIZZO

LAW

ART & ARCHITECTURE

Change Is Hard: On Miriam Aroni Krinsky’s “Change from Within”

Laurie L. Levenson reviews Miriam Aroni Krinsky’s “Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor” and discusses the “progressive prosecution” movement in the criminal justice system....

LAURIE L. LEVENSON

LAW

POLITICS

How Could He Possibly Lose? On Samantha Barbas’s “Actual Malice”

Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New York Times v. Sullivan.’”...

STEPHEN ROHDE

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Espionage Overreach: On Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression”

Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”...

STEPHEN ROHDE

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness

J. D. Connor ponders how AI is transforming the media landscape, the law, and our lives....

J. D. CONNOR

LAW

TELEVISION

Justice in the Age of Abolition: On Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded”

Hector Villagra reviews Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable.”...

HECTOR VILLAGRA

LAW

NONFICTION

POLITICS

Impossible Systems: On Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland”

Tim Hirschel-Burns reviews Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction.”...

TIM HIRSCHEL-BURNS

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Violence Within: On Peter Irons’s “White Men’s Law”

Gabriel J. Chin reviews Peter Irons’s “White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism,” a study of the history of racism in the laws of the United States....

GABRIEL J. CHIN

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Guns and Grammar, or How to Read the Second Amendment

Frank Bergon argues that bad grammar is driving our gun problem, via the Supreme Court’s reading of the Second Amendment....

FRANK BERGON

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Suffering the Smoldering Wrath: On Allen Goodman’s “Everyone Against Us”

Dana Garcetti reviews Allen Goodman’s “Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice,” in which the author, a former public defender, testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of the American criminal justice system....

DANA GARCETTI

LAW

POLITICS

Abolition After the George Floyd Rebellion: On Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti’s “States of Incarceration”

Jason E. Smith reviews Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan’s “States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System.”...

JASON E. SMITH

LAW

NONFICTION

POLITICS

HISTORY

Constitutional Revival: On Jedediah Purdy’s “Two Cheers for Politics”

Roslyn Fuller reviews Jedediah S. Purdy‘s “Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening ― and Our Best Hope.”...

ROSLYN FULLER

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

The Many Faces of Felix Frankfurter: On Brad Snyder’s “Democratic Justice”

Paul Finkelman reviews Brad Snyder's "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment."...

PAUL FINKELMAN

LAW

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

An Obituary for Originalism: On Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Worse Than Nothing”

Stephen Rohde reviews Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”...

STEPHEN ROHDE

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

Send More Cops: On Travis Linnemann’s “The Horror of Police”

Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linnemann’s penetrating new book, “The Horror of Police.”...

JARROD SHANAHAN

LAW

TELEVISION

FILM

POLITICS

Green Capitalism Is a Scam: A Conversation with Adrienne Buller

Writer Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn interview Adrienne Buller, author of “The Value of a Whale.”...

CAL TURNER, SARA VAN HORN

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

LAW

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia Has Committed War Crimes in Ukraine

Don Franzen interviews law expert Mark Ellis regarding recent atrocities committed in Ukraine and the subsequent international pursuit of justice....

MARK ELLIS

AROUND THE WORLD

LAW

POLITICS

Making History End, Again

Andrew Koppelman is happy with “Liberalism and Its Discontents” by Francis Fukuyama....

ANDREW KOPPELMAN

LAW

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

HISTORY

Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?

Allen Mendenhall reviews “Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy” by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone....

ALLEN MENDENHALL

LAW

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The “Peacewar” of Sanctions

Priya Satia approves of Nicholas Mulder’s “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.”...

PRIYA SATIA

AROUND THE WORLD

LAW

POLITICS

HISTORY

“This Should Not Be Repeated”: Civilian Devastation, from Syria to Ukraine

In this photoessay, Elle Kurancid and Fadi Al-Shami compare the current crisis in Ukraine to the last decade of war in Syria....

ELLE KURANCID, FADI AL-SHAMI

AROUND THE WORLD

LAW

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