Victor Pickard on the American media polycrisis and Mariana Pargendler on Brazil’s forgotten legal innovation. Plus, a fellowship in constitutional law and history, a new report on workplace democracy, an interview with Ahilan Arulanantham on third-country removals, Ivana Isailović on the Serbian student protests, Ilias Alami, Tom Chodor, and Jack Taggart on the causes and consequences of the emerging post-multilateral world, and Vanessa Williamson and Aziz Huq on the dissolution of laws that protect public money.

Vincent Joralemon on the flawed legal architecture behind drug pricing, Eamon Coburn on the anti-worker character of “no taxes on overtime,” and Emmanuel Mauleón on the gradual erosion of law preceding recent events in Minnesota. Plus, a cool new paper from Laura Portuondo, Amna Akbar on what’s happening in South Minneapolis, JW Mason on the costs of affordable housing in NYC, Steffen Murau on the future of the international monetary system, Steve Kennedy on the Supreme Court’s retreat from shared facts, and Daniel Schlozman on Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics.

Patrick Driessen on Big Pharma’s exit strategy, and Serena Mayeri on her recent history of marital privilege. Plus, Jake Grumbach and Adam Bonica on the scourge of moderation, JS Tan and Kathleen Thelen on cloud capitalism, Jessica Shoemaker & James Fallows Tierney on Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate, and the third installment of the political economy of finance summer school.

Edie Conekin-Tooze on hidden foster care as neoliberal family governance, an open letter from seventy-two UMN law faculty, and Luke Farrell on the means-testing industrial complex. Plus, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the roots of the Trump Doctrine, Sandeep Vaheesan and Brian Callaci on building democratic state capacity, Luke Herrine on the institutional foundations of free speech, an LPE fellowship at Open Markets, CfPs for conferences on carceral political economy, capitalism beyond neoliberalism, and Goffmanian Political Economy, a summer academy for American Political Economy, an upcoming event on the AI industry’s explosive demands for computing infrastructure, and new papers from Samuel Bagenstos and Michael Banerjee.

Nathan Yaffe on the immigration agencies openly defying federal courts, and Sabeel Rahman and Jocelyn Simonson on the Part IV problem in legal scholarship. Plus, Michael Macher traces the bipartisan origins of Trump’s immigration crackdown; Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany advocate targeting ICE’s corporate collaborators; David Austin Walsh discusses socialism in one city; Alondra Nelson examines the Trump administration’s more intensive and less transparent approach to AI regulation, William Boyd analyzes the White House’s push for emergency auctions in the largest wholesale electricity market in the country, and Vincent Mancini, Marshall Steinbaum, and Robert Stutchbury propose an antitrust exemption for independent contractors.

Rohan Grey and Amanda Parsons on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, Sandeep Vaheesan on antitrust reform as an instrument for democratizing economic life, Zohra Ahmed and Madiha Tahir on the Trump administration’s escalation against Venezuela, and Quinn Slobodian on the dim prospects of centrist post-neoliberalism. Plus, a “freedom from want” writing award, the birth of a new NYC policy shop, a look at how money does and doesn’t influence elections, a tutorial on the Netflix-Warner Bros Merger, and a new paper on the jurisprudential question of our times: how should you think about a Supreme Court that doesn’t care what you think?

A call to join the ranks of the Association for Law and Political Economy, an interview with Bench Ansfield about the business of arson, and a new entry by Amna Akbar in our symposium on Free Gifts. Plus, Andrew Elrod and Marshall Steinbaum lay out a vision for rebuilding higher ed, Katie Wells and Lindsay Owens examine algorithmic pricing at instacart, Sam Moyn discusses the radical centrism of the legal academy, Genevieve Lakier, Mark Tushnet, and Mike Seidman debate whether we need the courts to protect free speech, and Ben Tarnoff extols the possibilities for digital sewer socialism.

Madison Condon on climate change and externalities-thinking, Colleen Carrol on MAGA’s attempt to outflank democrats on college affordability, and Alvin Velazquez and Christopher Hampson on what LPE and the Bible have in common. Plus, Zephyr Teachout on the rise of MLMs, Susannah Glickman and Nic Johnson on the political economy of Trump’s second term, David Dayen on algorithmic pricing, an interview with Stuart Schrader on policing, Paul Kelleher on whether Coase can be reclaimed for LPE, a new report on the political economy of the US media system, and hot new articles on tax base fragmentation and the radical roots of the representative jury.

Alyssa Battistoni on the free gifts of nature, Rob Hunter on value form theory and the accelerating climate crisis, and Reshard L. Kolabhai on what LPE can learn from the Global South. Plus, a CFP on Lawyering Without the Law, Advait Arun on the capital structure of the AI sector, Sabeel Rahman on the case for a third reconstruction, Brett Christophers on private equity, Andrew Perry on NYC’s unique public spending model, Marie Thøgersen on international law’s fetishistic character, and Alvin Velazquez on municipal bankrupty as political resistance.

Vanessa Williamson on oligarchy and taxation, and Elle Rothermich on the commodification of hospice care. Plus, Kate Redburn on Skrmetti, LPE Night School on municipal power, Claire Kelloway on public grocery projects, Cassie Powell on private equity’s move into mobile home parks, Jacob Udell and Routhy Gourevitch on the multifamily rental market, Martijn Konings on MAGA and the Federal Reserve, and new books by Jason Jackson, Anna Law, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.

Matthew Dimick on antitrust and the logic of capitalism, and G.S. Hans on legal clinics under political attack. Plus, a cool new fellowship at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Cea Weaver on the housing politics in New York City, the Debt Collective on the threat that municipal debt poses to Mamdani, Sam Moyn on making congress great again, Sandeep Dhaliwal on New Deal Law and Order, a new report on the weaponization of antisemitism claims, Bench Ansfield interviewed about their recent book Born in Flames, a political economic reading of the Supreme Court’s tariff case, and Nicholas Mulder on why Trump is better at coercing allies than adversaries.

James Goodwin on the rise of OIRA 2.0, Noah Zatz and Jerry Kang on retaliation lawsuits against DEI purges, and Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim on prefigurative lawyering. Plus, registration and membership for the Association of Law and Political Economy, Lina Khan’s new substack, a new Roosevelt Report on effective governance, a measure of comeuppance for Big Law’s betrayal of democracy, a symposium on John Witt’s new book, and a new paper on bankruptcy law and unions.

James Tierney on Intel and American State Capitalism, David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany, and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus, Veena Dubal and Genevieve Lakier on why universities should reject Trump’s Compact, Oren Bracha on IP Law and the shortcomings of originalism and textualism, Chris Morten on vaccine “platforms” and the assetization of science, and an upcoming event on Heterodox Economics and Law and Political Economy.

Marshall Steinbaum on anti-monopolism as an ideology of the left, and Amna Akbar, Sameer Ashar, and Jocelyn Simonson on movement law under fascism. Plus, Dave Pozen and Jed Purdy examine three competing narratives of the Trump Administration, Amanda Shanor & Serena Mayeri explain why universities should reject the Compact for Higher Education, California bans TRAPs!, and hot new articles by Evan Bernick, Jessica A. Clarke, and Sam Bagenstos.

Luke Herrine on neoliberalism and authoritarianism in higher ed, Beau Baumann on losing and regaining administrative legitimacy, and Matthew Dimick on the dreaded double distortion argument against predistribution. Plus, higher ed “compact” reflections from Joey Fishkin, Genevieve Lakier, and Henry Farrell, an upcoming event on tenant unions, a new report assessing the impact of Citizens United, a fresh entry from the Sanjukta Blog, even more on antitrust and socialism, and everything you wanted to know about the 389 cases challenging the Trump Administration since January but were too afraid to ask.