Six former members of the Biden Administration on a more progressive future, along with a collection of our most illuminating posts on administrative law and democratic governance. Plus, a call for recently accepted LPE-relevant articles, an upcoming event on Organizing Red States, a lecture by Sanjukta Paul on Economic Coordination and Competition in American Legal Thought, a fellowship at The Brennan Center for Justice, Nathan Tankus on Fort Knox and Buying Bitcoin, David Dayen on amnesty day at the CFPB, and Beau Baumann on why progressives need to start thinking much bigger.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy on the rule of law and the political economy of the current constitutional crisis, and Martin Sybblis on how offshore financial law promotes post-colonial freedom. Plus, a Save the Date for the Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference, a major policy report calling on states to prohibit surveillance wages and prices, Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the social life of care, Adam Bonica on how DOGE is targeting left-leaning agencies, a cool job alert at LPE at HLS, Jenny Hunter on how the Supreme Court paved the way for Trump II, and so much more!

Luke Herrine on writing down our dreams during a living nightmare, Allison Tait on the not-so-secret lives of trusts, and Ezra Rosser on how antipoverty advocates can go on the offensive. Plus, an upcoming event with Umut Özsu and Sam Moyn, a new paper by Brian Highsmith, Maya Sen, and Kathy Thelen, a new piece by Marshall Steinbaum about the longstanding Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality, and an open letter to students of the Third Reconstruction.

Six perspectives on fissures on the right, Jed Kroncke on the rise of anti-democratic super-property, and Ben Sachs on what happens to labor preemption without a functioning labor board. Plus, our favorite pieces on the Treasury payments crisis, Blake Emerson on the systemic constitutional violations under Trump, Samuel Bagenstos on writing about the illegality of it all, JW Mason on writing about policy in the Trump era, a housing rights staff attorney position at TakeRoot Justice, a new issue of the Journal of Law and Political Economy, and a new piece on consent from David Pozen and Daryl Levinson.

Gaurav Mukherjee on America’s first religious charter school, Beth Popp Berman on the relevance of policy-adjacent scholarship in a broken world, and Evan Bernick on the anti-constitutional attack on birthright citizenship. Plus, a lefty law conference at HLS, an(other!) event with Dean Spade, a CfP on offshore finance, and new pieces by Jan-Werner Müller, Laleh Khalili, and Basel Musharbash.

A.J. Bauer on how to oppose Trumpism, Genevieve Lakier on the TikTok Ban and the limits of the First Amendment, and Chrystin Ondersma on a dignity-based approach to debt. Plus, upcoming events with Dean Spade on sticking together and Michael Fakhri on Palestianian Food Sovereignty, CFPs for workshops on social reproduction and the post-neoliberal moment in labor law, a new syllabus on Law after Neoliberalism, a summer academy for scholars of American Political Economy, a new paper on unions and AI governance, and the launch of Common Wealth’s US research & policy program.

Amy Kapczynski on institutional neutrality rules, and Greg Baltz on tenant union organizing in the shadow of law. Plus, a changing of the guard on the LPE editorial board, a CFP on Carceral Political Economy, a lunch talk with Dean Spade, two political-economy focused post-doc positions, Jasmine Harris on conservatorships, Jonathan Harris on the FTC’s non-compete rule, Karen Tani on Digging a Hole, a debate over the YIMBY agenda, Amna Akbar on Mangione and Malm, Beth Popp Berman on antitrust and industrial policy, and the Michigan Journal of Law and Society is looking for interdisciplinary scholarship.

Matthew Lawrence on the political influence of super groups, and Henry Tonks on The Quiet Coup. Plus, Katie Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda on Uber for Nursing, Kate Redburn on 303 Creative, David Stein on economic austerity and intersectional analysis, an interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election, and an episode of the inequality podcast about the costs of mass incarceration.

Beau Baumann and James Goodwin on the LPE of Congress, Shai Karp on landlords as petty tyrants, and a listicle of our favorite LPE posts on technology. Plus, Tara Raghuveer and Ruthy Gourevitch on tenant unions, Suzanne Kahn on feminist progressive populism, good news from the trenches of the EPA and FTC, Alvin Velazquez on bankrupt cities and federal disaster spending, and new book symposia at Legal Form and the American Political Economy Blog (inside you there are two wolves).

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez on workplace surveillance, Luke Herrine on midcentury meatpacking competition, Eamonn Coburn on abusive labor practices as unfair competition, Alex Gourevitch and Christopher Muller on race, labor exploitation, and incarceration, and the Critical Legal Collective on DEI Statements. Plus, Harvard LPE is looking for a new director, a Yale ISP fellowship opportunity, two upcoming climate events, new books from Sandeep Vaheesan and Lenore Palladino, election takes from Nathan Tankus, Perry Bacon Jr, Quinn Slobodian, Wendy Brown, and our friends at Dissent, and more!

Tara Pincock on meager price-fixing enforcement, Andrea Cann Chandrasekher on consumer redlining, and Alvin Velazquez on bankruptcy proceedings in Puerto Rico. Plus, the History & Political Economy joins the ranks of the blog army, a new paper on the labor consequences of insurer mergers, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the myth that shareholders are investors, Joanna Schwartz on police accountability under Trump II, and Niko Bowie on faculty organizing.

Amy Kapczynski & Luke Herrine with some light election reading, Keith Orejel on the economic foundations of our modern urban-rural political divide, and Jacob Hamburger on how democrats should respond to the “migrant crisis.” Plus, Karen Tani’s new HLR Foreword, Jeffrey N. Gordon on the impending crypto financial crisis, a student note on the political economy of arbitration law, an interview with Isabella Weber on Biden and inflation, and more!

Eight experts on Palestinian liberation and international law, Luke Herrine on the little-noticed revolution in Consumer Protection, Alex Gourevitch on the anti-democratic power of the entrepreneurial elite, and Brandon Weiss and Michael Karam on the prospects for major housing regulations in a post-Chevron world. Plus, a call for legal volunteers around the election, a fellowship with the Information Society Project, and a boatload of new pieces from: Gregory Brazeal, Diana Reddy, Sandeep Vaheesan, Raúl Carrillo, Sarah Milov, Adam Tooze, and Jade Craig.

Zohra Ahmed on the role that criminal fines and fees play in financing the state, Miguel Ruiz on the role of law and social movements in the fight against Spain’s chronic housing crisis, and Matthew Glover and Joshua Ingram on fascism from an Afrikan perspective. Plus, a call for (your!) recently accepted LPE scholarship, an internship with the Movement Law Lab, a workshop on the LPE of Social Reproduction, new articles by Nicole Summers and Alyssa Battistoni, an analysis of Trump’s likely judicial appointments, and a look at the new lobbying industry spawned by economic sanctions.

The LPE Blog goes global: the editors share some of our favorite recent global LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel kick off a series on movement lawyering in times of rising authoritarianism, and Lamine Benghazi analyzes Tunisia’s failed democratic transition. Plus, a fellowship in carceral studies, a symposium on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind, Fragile Juggernaut on the South, Ivan Kilgore on prison officials thwarting prison reform, Sharon Block and Ben Sachs on state-level labor policy divergence, and a cool new rule from the FTC that will make canceling subscriptions much easier.