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A Billion-Dollar Idea
A Billion-Dollar Idea
Entrepreneurs: Are you looking for a way to start a business that helps marginalized people, thereby lending direction to your purposeless…
Dan Canon
Jul 20
Prepare for the New War on Drugs
Prepare for the New War on Drugs
The coming War on Abortion is likely to be worse than anything we can imagine.
Dan Canon
Jun 30
On Being the First
On Being the First
Who’ll be first?
Marcia Ziegler
Jun 24
Can We Be The Generation That Ends School Shootings?
Can We Be The Generation That Ends School Shootings?
How old were you when you realized that an individual adult’s right to own a gun is more important than a child’s life?
Erin Gow
Jun 2
Where is the Lie?
Where is the Lie?
The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial was never about who abused whom. The verdict is a major setback for #Metoo.
JoAnne Sweeny
Jun 2
Civil Disobedience To Slavery
Civil Disobedience To Slavery
Most people in the US that think slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. It didn’t. Read on to find out more...
Simon Higgs
May 26
The Title IX Process
The Title IX Process
Part One- The Report
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
May 26
Can’t Afford Kids? Put That Baby in a Box
Can’t Afford Kids? Put That Baby in a Box
The GOP’s policy solution for post-Roe social chaos: create infant drop-off locations all over the country
Dan Canon
May 26
What Happens Now?
What Happens Now?
This is the question many of us are asking this morning, as we read what appears to be a frothmouthed Justice Alito’s draft opinion…
Dan Canon
May 3
For State Laws that Gig Companies Lobbied For, the Definition of “Work Time” Is Still Utterly…
For State Laws that Gig Companies Lobbied For, the Definition of “Work Time” Is Still Utterly…
It puts the onus on drivers to determine how benefits apply
Nilesh Kavthekar
Apr 20
Why ‘Worker Classification’ Has Become a $200M+ Legal War
Why ‘Worker Classification’ Has Become a $200M+ Legal War
It all stems from a flawed legal assumption made in 1838
Nilesh Kavthekar
Apr 4
America’s Jails Are Slaughterhouses
America’s Jails Are Slaughterhouses
A jail is supposed to be the last stop. Here, it’s the only stop.
Dan Canon
Mar 31
Yeezy Taught Me: Kanye West and the Characteristics of a Domestic Abuser
Yeezy Taught Me: Kanye West and the Characteristics of a Domestic Abuser
With perhaps the exception of 50 Cent, there was no bigger name in 2000s hip hop than Kanye West. West’s seminal 2004 album, “The College…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Feb 22
The Secondary Trauma of COVID
The Secondary Trauma of COVID
I can always tell when I’m burning out. It’s this feeling I get in a quiet moment, like when I’m driving to work and in between songs on…
JoAnne Sweeny
Feb 17
An Un-Ordinary Situation
An Un-Ordinary Situation
Did the defendants in a sexual harassment case pick the judges?
Jeffrey Radhaus
Feb 14
What I learned About Sexual Assault Education in Higher Education from NASPA
What I learned About Sexual Assault Education in Higher Education from NASPA
My law school education has led me down a rather unique professional path. While my fellow classmates dreamed of fighting all manner of…
James J. Wilkerson, J.D.
Feb 7
The Supreme Court Said It Was OK
The Supreme Court Said It Was OK
How An Unprincipled Decision Sanctioned Antisemitism
Jeffrey Radhaus
Jan 31
Apple’s Employees Have a Right to Discuss Their Wages
Apple’s Employees Have a Right to Discuss Their Wages
By Olivia Polston & Ariana R. Levinson
JoAnne Sweeny
Jan 3
The tornadoes will come again.
The tornadoes will come again.
What will employers do to keep workers alive?
Dan Canon
Dec 13, 2021
The Supreme Court’s Big Lie
The Supreme Court’s Big Lie
The Justices Are Not Umpires
Jeffrey Radhaus
Dec 6, 2021
The Monster Walks Among Us
The Monster Walks Among Us
All his life, his father had promised him that there was nothing to worry about. No ghosts or goblins, no boogie man in the closet, no…
Martin French
Nov 16, 2021
How One Peaceful Protester Was Prosecuted In Louisville: An Abridged Timeline
How One Peaceful Protester Was Prosecuted In Louisville: An Abridged Timeline
The true story of one case, from arrest to dismissal, out of 800+ protester prosecutions following Breonna Taylor’s death
Dan Canon
Nov 15, 2021
I was one of the lawyers who helped win marriage equality and yes, the GOP can take it away.
I was one of the lawyers who helped win marriage equality and yes, the GOP can take it away.
In late 2016 I published an op-ed entitled “Trump and LGBTQ rights: Your worst nightmares unlikely to come true.” The premise of the piece…
Dan Canon
Nov 4, 2021
This Army Vet and Father of Three Got Two Life Sentences for Stealing Movies for His Kids
This Army Vet and Father of Three Got Two Life Sentences for Stealing Movies for His Kids
Leandro Andrade served his country in the U.S Army for nine years. When he got out, he had a drug habit. That drug habit caused him to get…
Dan Canon
Oct 31, 2021
This Cop Framed One Out of Every Ten Black People in A Texas Town
This Cop Framed One Out of Every Ten Black People in A Texas Town
Yes, that’s him in the photo. He used to be a rodeo cowboy. The whole story is even worse than the headline suggests.
Dan Canon
Oct 22, 2021
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