Your Glasses Shouldn’t Be Able to Dox Me
Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly tha...
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No Ticket to Ride
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flash...
The Fall Girls
President Donald Trump’s relationship with women is contentious at best. With a history of inflammatory comments and sexual assault allegations, he is far from a model feminist. Yet his second term fe...
One Day at a Time
When we think of clashes between state and federal power, we tend to think of dramatic confrontations from our Advanced Placement US History textbooks—like President Dwight Eisenhower sending federal...
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Rhode Island’s Clemency Process is a Model – Of What Not To Do
In the wake of a number of recent controversial pardons issued by President Trump, some have begun to argue that perhaps the Constitution should be amended to restrict the president’s authority. Intro...
Judging the Lobbyists
In 1984, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed a report alleging that federal judges improperly used funds to “influence pending legislation.” Specifically, the concern was...
May the Odds Be Never in Your Favor
Truth is a fickle matter. It prowls the crevices of bias and roams the pith of dissent. It snakes through equivocation, hiding from politics and eluding online discourse. Even as we increasingly hunge...
Lowering the Bar
In early 2026, both Florida’s and Texas’s Supreme Courts opted to drop their requirement that the states’ lawyers graduate from American Bar Association (ABA)–accredited law schools. This opened the d...
Evicting the Record: Automatically
In Rhode Island, 6,328 households were thrown into the eviction process over the past year. An eviction filing begins what is typically an arduous process for tenants: making early-morning court appea...
Section 230 is Not Fit for AI
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These are the 26 words that s...
License to Learn
Last year, Elon Musk proclaimed that AI was already smarter than the smartest person in the world, and soon will be smarter than all of the smartest people in the world collectively. No matter how one...
Brutus v. the Bench
On September 24, 1789, George Washington nominated John Jay to the office of Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, setting a judicial precedent for our nascent nation. On appointing nominees, Washing...
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Protest, Power, and Policing: An Interview with Miguel Sanchez
Miguel Sanchez is the Majority Whip of the Providence City Council from Ward 6 and an outspoken activist for Palestinian freedoms. In October 2023, Sanchez was fired from his position in Governor Dani...
Phoning It In
Telephonic interpretation in US Immigration Courts undermine immigrants’ rights to a fair and just hearing.
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Teachers-turned-politicians offer a promising antidote to lawyerly domination in the Democratic Party
Beyond the Green and Blue: An Interview with Gloria Gilbert Stoga
Gloria Gilbert Stoga is the founder of Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), a Manhattan-based organization that partners puppies with incarcerated individuals. These individuals will train and raise the puppies...
