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Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Liberal Democracies Have a Duty to Respond to China’s New National Security Law

According to China’s sweeping new national security law, European citizens who argue in favor of self-determination for Hong Kong in their home...
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Hong Kong’s Crisis and the Turn Toward Extraterritorial Law

China's new National Security Law, as well as its increasing reliance on law as a mode of repression, reflect important shifts in...
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Coronavirus

How Personal Experiences With Covid-19 Are Changing Americans’ Behaviors and Political Views

While strong divisions persist across party lines, personal experiences with Covid-19, such as loss of income, may affect views and preferences among...
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COMMENTARIES

The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election

The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to....
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Capitalisn't

Break Up the Police

In most cities in America, it is not the police that answers to the mayors, but the mayors to the police. The...
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Inequality

“We’ve Never Had a Purely Capitalist Economy—We’ve Had State-Subsidies for Some and Exclusion for Others”

In an interview with ProMarket, UC Irvine law professor Mehrsa Baradaran discussed the connection between the current protest wave and the deep-seated...
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COMMENTARIES

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Liberal Order?

In the past 30 years, liberalism has not lived up to its promise to deliver economic returns for the broad majority of...
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Coronavirus

How Benjamin Netanyahu Used the Covid-19 Crisis to Save His Political Career

As countries around the world are waging war on the coronavirus, Israel’s prime minister has managed to leverage the crisis to gain more power...
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Coronavirus

Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges

As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Eastman Kodak, Private Equity Hospitals, and America’s First Female Recession

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Antitrust and Competition

Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem

Lucas Kunce
Tech platforms like Facebook say we should protect, empower, and celebrate their concentrated power for the sake of America’s national security. But...
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Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean, Federico Masera, Hasin Yousaf
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Is Officially Too Big to Manage

Shaoul Sussman
Last week’s Congressional hearing on Big Tech showed the CEOs of the four largest tech platforms unable to answer basic questions about...
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Antitrust and Competition

The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small?

Randy Picker
Last week’s epic House hearing on online platforms raised many issues, chief among which was the question who gets to operate at...
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Corporate Governance

How Hedge Fund Performance Fees Fail Investors

Itzhak Ben-David, Justin Birru, Andrea Rossi
In the hedge fund industry, there is a material disconnect between funds’ lifetime performance and lifetime incentive fees for managers. A new...
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Google, Shale, and Fraudulent Honey

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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