When livestock owners complain of predation, the U.S. government traps America’s recovering gray wolves, poisons them, and shoots them from helicopters. Ben Rankins’s powerful reporting on The [F]law. examines how state and federal officials have revived wolf extermination in America
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In St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, a twice-bankrupt oil refinery is poised to reopen despite a record of environmental disasters. Residents are fighting to protect their health and get a say in their island’s economic future. Read Alicia Keyes’s brilliant
Shao Chan’s excellent new article on The [F]law examines how Uber and Lyft are racing to the bottom to redefine work. Read the article here. Related article on The [F]law: Julio Colby, Brave New Work: The Resurgence of Organized Labor
Adriel Williams’s powerful new article on The [F]law looks at how prison telecommunications company Securus tears families apart with its astronomically high fees and costs. One million incarcerated people must use Securus products to call and email their families, but
Anna Bowers’s compelling and revealing new article on The [F]law looks at a controversial police technology company that deploys money, influence, and secrecy to benefit its bottom line at the expense of communities that it claims to make “safer.” What
Friends of Systemic Justice Project will want to read Tala Alfoqaha’s excellent new article on The [F]law examining how private companies incentivize public police to prioritize property over people. The article asks: What happens when the state’s monopoly on violence,
Christopher Benson has written a great piece on Spotlight and the problems with an individualistic, rather than a systemic, focus: [M]erely exposing individual wrongdoers does not go far enough if systemic flaws enable wrongdoing to continue. That is the driving dramatic question
There have been recent developments in three important stories. First, the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released. Second, the New York Attorney General has opened an investigation following revelations that Exxon Mobil’s scientists were warning it about the
Richard Thaler writes in the New York Times about the problem that nudges can be used for good or bad. He specifies three principles for nudging, and then writes: As far as I know, the government teams in Britain and
Excerpt from today’s Harvard Crimson: Students from the environmental activist group Divest Harvard have appealed the dismissal of their lawsuit filed against the University last November, which asks the court to compel Harvard to divest its $37.6 billion endowment from