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
Politics & Democracy
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
Briahna Joy Gray shares her brilliant thoughts about her experiences and influences in law school, her goals as a journalist and podcaster, her experience on the Bernie Sanders campaign, the role of left-wing journalism, the problem of corporate power, her
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
Vanessa A. Bee, Alec Karakatsanis, Sam Rosen, & Jay Willis at Harvard Law School participated in the panel about law, lawyering, and journalism as part of the launch of The [F]law on February 10, 2022. The panel was moderated by
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,
Ralph Nader gave inspiring keynote remarks to students at Harvard Law School at the launch of The [F]law on February 10, 2022. Here’s the video:
See Julio Colby’s important article on the possible resurgence of American labor. Although private-sector union membership sits at a historic low of 6 percent, the number of strikes and union elections have significantly increased since the pandemic, with successful unionization