A Labor Day special: Michael Wishnie on faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on reviving long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, upcoming deadlines for the ALPE conference and the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop, a new syllabus from Sanjukta Paul, a thread of helpful student-focused LPE materials, an interview with Lev Menand on Trump’s attempt to fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook, Veena Dubal on AI and surveillance wages, Joel Michaels on the Intel stake as corrupt industrial policy, and Aziz Rana and Osita Nwanevu in conversation about the return of Trump and the pathway to democratic change.

Hilary Allen on why we shouldn’t subsidize fintech, Amy Kapczynski on what it will take to make public pharma work, and Maryam Jamshidi on the economic considerations at the heart of recent U.S. Sanctions. Plus, two cool CfPs (including one conference near and dear to our heart), a fellowship down under, an event on the post-Dobbs landscape, and new essays on fake GOP antitrust populism, the cost of law school, the centralization of power/knowledge in the executive branch, the new state “legal tender” laws, and the EPA’s attempts to reinterpret the Clean Air Act.

Bijal Shah on how the Supreme Court enables Trump’s illegal immigrations actions, Fumika Mizuno on the consolidation of the dialysis market, and Morgan Harper on building the movement that Democrats won’t. Plus, cool new CFPs, jobs, books, and think pieces on your favorite mayoral candidate.

Ilias Alami on the new state capitalism, Sabeel Rahman on anti-domination and the administrative state, and Jonathan Glater on Students for Fair Admissions. Plus, Jacob Hacker and Patrick Sullivan on the lowlights of the Republican budget reconciliation bill, Adam Bonica on the war between the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary, Alyssa Battistoni on the free gifts of nature, Sandeep Vaheesan on the revival of non-domination in antitrust, and an interview with Ted Fertik on energy and the OBBB.

William Boyd on the history and future of renewable energy ownership, Renee Tapp on the affordable housing crisis as an antitrust issue, and Nathan Schneider on building collective worker power in the tech industry. Plus, an upcoming event on DOGE and austerity, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the risk of private credit funds, David Super on a big beautiful bill and a broken congress, Brian Callaci on abundance and the need to discipline capital, and Nate Holdren on Trump and the trap of legalism.

Shelley Welton discusses the political hurdles facing modern public power movements, and Jed Britton-Purdy interviews Shitong Qiao about neighborhood democratization in urban China. Plus, a save the date for the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming ACS panel on building worker & tenant power, Sam Moyn on the limitations of freedom as independence, and Delaney Nolan on Louisiana’s “creative” system for funding eviction courts.

Sandeep Vaheesan and Brett Christophers kick off a symposium on Democracy in Power, while the Blog’s editorial staff share some of their favorite housing posts from over the years. Plus, Søren Mau on Citizen Marx, Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli on the Supreme Court’s Federal Reserve shenanigans, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand on America’s Braudelian Autumn, Lisa Miller on the Dead End of Checks and Balances, and a Just Money workshop with Morgan Ricks on Financial Market Infrastructure.

Dan Farbman on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship. Plus, a CFP on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule, Allison Tait revisits Henry Hansmann on endowments, Jed Purdy discusses Ecology and Democracy in a World on Fire, Talha Syed calls for abolishing pharma patents, Sandeep Vaheesan reviews Abundance, Money on the Left offers a fiscal strategy for resisting Trump, Rick Hansen traces the collapse of campaign finance regulation in the US, and Stephanie Richard argues against criminalizing wage theft.

Salomé Viljoen on data governance and techno-authoritarians, Kelly Grotke on the foundations of the current crisis in higher ed, and Isaac Kamola on the role of dark money organizations in the campus speech wars. Plus, an incredible CFP for junior work and labor scholars, a special issue of the JLPE on securities law and climate change, Katharina Pistor and David Pozen on Columbia’s review of its University Senate, Adam Bonica on why Democrats should reject mega-donor money, Ben Dinovelli on the Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Mandate, Nathaniel Donahue on Humphrey’s Executor, Kate Jackson on Lenore Palladino’s Good Company, and Fred Block on the possibility of remaking finance for the public good.

Nicholas Handler on the importance of federal labor unions and Ava Liu on Universal Basic Income and the politics of automation. Plus, last call for new spring scholarship, an upcoming event with Aziz Rana and Vijayashri Sripati, model legislation aimed at rising veterinary prices, and new pieces by Bernard Harcourt, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, and Alex Gourevitch.

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 Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, a new collection of essays on Economic Democracy, and a review of Sophia Rosenfeld’s new book, The Age of Choice.

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.