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Over at Market Design Blog, Al Roth posts part of an incredibly moving email conversation with a donor who became part of a kidney paired exchange after hearing what I…

Yair Rosenberg has an excellent article in Tablet about the anti-Jewish posts of a Democratic candidate for the California state assembly.  Here are some excerpts: Maria Estrada is running as…

  This just in: The Georgia State University Law Review invites legal scholars, advocates, attorneys, judges, data scientists, and other practitioners to submit pieces for its upcoming symposium issue on…

Having linked to various favorable reviews of my books, it seemed only right to flag a negative review of Interrogating Ethnography, in this case written by sociologists Pedro Monteiro and…

Today is the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are ...

In 1960, Frank Sinatra recorded this campaign song for JFK. My parents had the 45 and we played it pretty often (I was eleven).  Can't explain why I just remembered…

Dust My Broom was first recorded by the Mississippi Delta's great Robert Johnson in 1936.  Fifteen years later, Chicago's Elmore James took Johnson's solo number and turned it into an ...

On this day in 1859, the Oberlin Rescuers -- including Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell -- were freed from jail after 83 days of detention.  Langston and Bushnell had been…

In 1859, Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell were convicted in federal court for the crime of rescuing a fugitive from slave hunters.  My new article in The Conversation makes the ...

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