Though the urban-rural divide can sometimes appear like a primordial fault line in American political life, it is in fact a relatively recent development. The Democratic Party’s collapse in the countryside was the predictable consequence of decisions to prioritize certain constituencies to the neglect of others, as it championed the shift to the metropolitan knowledge economy.

The articles, blogs, exit polls, charts, tweets, and skeets that have been helping us make sense of the 2024 election.

With the fall 2024 submission season in the books and our Twitter feeds abuzz with placement announcements, the LPE Blog highlights some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Covering tech, labor, housing, admin law, family law, consumer protection, legal theory, local government law, and so much more, this scouting report is not to be missed.

With Elon Musk plowing his wealth into a pro-Trump super PAC and Jeff Bezos blocking the Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris, it’s easy to overlook the more direct anti-democratic power of the entrepreneurial elite. Their economic power — the ability to shape the future of our society in utterly unaccountable ways — requires no insidious corruption of democratic procedures or public officials. The entrepreneur rules us without ruling through politics.

Rabea Eghbariah, Noura Erakat, Alaa Hajyahia, Darryl Li, Aslı Bâli, Diala Shamas, Maha Abdallah, and Shahd Hammouri share their thoughts on how international law hinders Palestinian liberation, and how it must transform to contribute to it.

A new tendency within American conservatism is borrowing leftwing critiques of the rightwing status quo. What is the Trad Dad Populist and what kind of political economy does he hope to construct?