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Weekly Roundup: May 2

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Ganesh Sitaraman on Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence, Ntina Tzouvala on Tariffs and Economic Sabotage, and Noa Ben-Asher on Trans Healthcare Bans and White Nationalism. Plus, a three-part interview series with Aziz Rana, Zohra Ahmed on the right-wing legal campaigns to kill progressive social movements, a spreadsheet of where law firms stand vis-a-vis. . .
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Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence

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While debate over AI regulation in the United States has largely focused on safety, the future of AI progress will also be determined by market structure. To ensure continued innovation, policymakers must use antitrust tools to protect competition at all levels of the supply chain — from hardware and cloud infrastructure to models hubs and consumer applications.. . .
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How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State

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The Trump Administration’s anti-trans policies should be seen as central, rather than peripheral, to the creation of what Melinda Cooper has called “an anti-social state” — a state that would abandon every duty to serve its citizens and residents, whose sole purpose would be to amplify presidential executive power.
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Fossil Capital’s Regulatory Havens in the Carribean

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Offshore jurisdictions don’t just hide wealth — they enable the climate crisis by shielding the fossil fuel industry from taxes, environmental regulation, and political accountability. The Caribbean’s role as a hub for regulatory havens underscores the deep entanglement between colonial extraction, global capitalism, and environmental degradation.
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The New Carceral Public Health Law

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According to recent judicial decisions, the state can criminalize homelessness, ban abortion, and restrict gender-affirming care, all in the name of public health, yet it cannot mandate vaccines nor pause evictions. How should we understand this asymmetry, and how might we realign public health jurisprudence with the pursuit of equality?
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How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions

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If endowments are fundamentally creatures of restriction, they are also in smaller measure creatures of interpretation and discretion. Universities should use what flexibility they do have to stand up for their programs, employees, and students – for the core constituents in a mission-driven environment – in this time of unprecedented assault.