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How the Trump Administration is Constructing Jewishness

James Brandt — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:29:00 +0000

According to President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is “not Jewish anymore.” Nor are Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party. Nor are Jewish college students who oppose the Israeli government’s ongoing and intensifying genocide in Gaza. This rhetoric is not limited to the President. Leo Terrell, the head of the Department of Justice’s new Antisemitism Task Force...

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What’s Value in Health Care? Powerful Companies Make It Hard To Know

Eve Zelickson — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** If you take them at their word, drug companies, medical device and software companies, hospitals, and their investors are committed to providing “value” to patients and the public. Gilead, the infectious disease giant, claims its medication prices “reflect the...

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Solidarity during the Second Red Scare: The Lessons of Thomas Emerson

James Brandt — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Thomas Emerson is best known today in the legal academy as perhaps the foremost scholar of the First Amendment of his generation. Yet this self-described “legal liberal” and “general socialist” has a much more significant and often neglected legacy: his refusal to be silenced by the forces of repression during the Second Red Scare. At a time when the academy was being ruthlessly purged of those...

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CFP: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference

James Brandt — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) planning committee invites proposals for the inaugural ALPE Conference. The conference will take place on February 6-7, 2026, at a venue in downtown Richmond, Virginia, hosted by the University of Richmond School of Law. This conference will serve as the launch for a new Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE)...

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The Same Script: Value-Based Payment, Managed Care, and Neoliberalism

Eve Zelickson — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new governing consensus in health care policy. To address persistently high costs and poor outcomes, policymakers sought to break from the “fee-for-service” payment system, which reimburses physicians for...

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Local Electricity and Bottom-up Energy Planning

James Brandt — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

To build an electric system that meets the needs and opportunities of the 21st century, we need proposals that strengthen public control and improve regulation of Investor-Owned Utilities. Yet on their own, such proposals ignore a fundamental issue: almost all federal, state, municipal, and coop utilities currently operate with the same centralized, top-down planning and system control as Investor Owned Utilities. Unless that changes, public ownership will do little to remove the barriers that now largely block the evolution of decarbonized, resilient, and more equitable electric service.

Weekly Roundup: July 11

James Brandt — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Monday, Bijal Shah highlighted an under-appreciated way in which the Supreme Court has enabled the executive branch’s illegal immigration actions: it has abandoned longstanding principles of administrative law. During Trump’s first term, the Court deployed the Administrative Procedure Act to restrain the president’s most egregious actions. This time around, however, the Court has shown little...

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Beyond The Ballot: Building The Movement Democrats Won’t

Liz Brown — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Six years ago this month, in the middle of the first Trump administration, I quit my job and launched a campaign for Congress against a Democratic incumbent in the city where I was born and raised – Columbus, Ohio. I ran because Donald Trump posed a clear threat to the stability of the United States, and I knew fending off his growing Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement would take a different...

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A Dialysis Duopoly: How Public Funding Entrenched Private Power

Eve Zelickson — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** For the half-million people in the U.S. with kidney failure, survival rests in the hands of two powerful corporations—DaVita and Fresenius. Together, these companies control over 70% of the outpatient dialysis market. But the history of dialysis isn’t a simple...

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Abandoning Administrative Law During a Presidential Immigration Crisis

James Brandt — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:45:27 +0000

Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Ábrego García, and Rumeysa Ozturk are just a few of the people against whom the second Trump Administration has openly engaged in illegitimate forms of immigration enforcement. In addition, President Trump seems undeterred by federal court orders that he stop commanding the administrative state to implement unlawful immigration punishments. As a result, the U.S.

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