Edie Conekin-Tooze on hidden foster care as neoliberal family governance, an open letter from seventy-two UMN law faculty, and Luke Farrell on the means-testing industrial complex. Plus, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the roots of the Trump Doctrine, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci on building democratic state capacity, Luke Herrine on the institutional foundations of free speech, an LPE fellowship at Open Markets, CfPs for conferences on carceral political economy, capitalism beyond neoliberalism, and Goffmanian Political Economy, a summer academy for American Political Economy, an upcoming event on the AI industry’s explosive demands for computing infrastructure, and new papers from Samuel Bagenstos and Michael Banerjee.

Seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

Nathan Yaffe on the immigration agencies openly defying federal courts, and Sabeel Rahman and Jocelyn Simonson on the Part IV problem in legal scholarship. Plus, Michael Macher traces the bipartisan origins of Trump's immigration crackdown; Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany advocate targeting ICE's corporate collaborators; David Austin Walsh discusses socialism in one city; Alondra Nelson examines the Trump administration's more intensive and less transparent approach to AI regulation, William Boyd analyzes the White House's push for emergency auctions in the largest wholesale electricity market in the country, and Vincent Mancini, Marshall Steinbaum, and Robert Stutchbury propose an antitrust exemption for independent contractors.

Edie, James, Eve, and Liz highlight some of their favorite posts from 2025.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Revisit the entries from the past year that readers turned to the most.

Rohan Grey and Amanda Parsons on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, Sandeep Vaheesan on antitrust reform as an instrument for democratizing economic life, Zohra Ahmed and Madiha Tahir on the Trump administration's escalation against Venezuela, and Quinn Slobodian on the dim prospects of centrist post-neoliberalism. Plus, a "freedom from want" writing award, the birth of a new NYC policy shop, a look at how money does and doesn't influence elections, a tutorial on the Netflix-Warner Bros Merger, and a new paper on the jurisprudential question of our times: how should you think about a Supreme Court that doesn’t care what you think?