At the Blog
On Monday, Vincent Joralemon explained how, a decade after Martin Shkreli became the most hated man in America, life-and-death drug pricing decisions are still being made by businesspeople who owe patients no legal duty and face every incentive to extract value.
On Tuesday, Eamon Coburn argued that the recent “no tax on overtime” provision is fundamentally anti-worker. By encouraging people to spend more time on the job, it runs directly counter to the original purpose of overtime laws: to protect workers’ personal time and give them greater control over their lives.
And on Thursday, Emmanuel Mauleón reflected on the situation in Minnesota, the gradual erosion of law that preceded it, and the stakes of the legal profession’s response.
In LPE Land
Hot new article alert: Laura Portuondo’s “Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty” is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.
In the London Review of Books, Amna Akbar offers a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis.
In the New York City Policy Forum, JW Mason argues that any plan to freeze rents must ensure a quick resolution for apartment buildings in financial distress.
In Liberal Currents, Steve Kennedy argues that the Supreme Court no longer shares a common factual world with the people it governs.
In Phenomenal World, Steffen Murau discusses four possible futures for the international monetary system.
In the American Prospect, David Dayen reports on Trump’s DOJ throwing in the towel against Ticketmaster. So much for ye olde right-wing populism.
And in the New Republic, Daniel Schlozman reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, which offers a reading of “Putnam from the left.”
