Every Tuesday, Iranians gather—online, in diaspora communities, in whispered conversations inside the country—to say the one thing the Islamic Republic fears most: No to execution. It is a phrase that has become both a rallying cry and a plea for help. The No to Execution Tuesdays campaign is not a slogan; it is a weekly [...]
In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior demonstrates how AI can turn unstructured legal records into measurable data, testing the rule of law against empirical reality. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney disciplinary decisions. In Part 3, he turned to federal court [...]
Rumors are swirling of a possible summit involving the leaders of the world’s three most powerful nations: the United States, China, and Russia. Ostensibly, the purpose of such a gathering would be to discuss an end to Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine. On the surface, any effort to halt bloodshed and restore stability to Europe [...]
The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Timothy Kelly blocking the executive exclusion of CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House complex is being widely heralded as a triumphant vindication of the Free Press clause. In his 26-page opinion, Judge Kelly unmasked the state’s post-hoc national security justifications, finding that the blanket [...]
I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude toward the Islamic Republic seemed to have changed. He had begun to defend the government, or at least to [...]
When I was in the third grade, my teacher told us that, before she had formally begun her career as a teacher, she was sitting on a bus when she saw Iraqi fighter jets flying overhead. The Iran-Iraq War had begun, and the image of aircraft above an ordinary road became, for her, the threshold [...]
In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]
US President Donald J. Trump continues to treat world politics as a quantifiable game to be won or lost. Among other errors, this treatment links world peace to belligerent nationalism and ignores the human foundations of national security. The following article by Purdue University Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres explains how such a view would [...]
When lawyers compare state juvenile justice systems, there is a natural temptation to begin with the visible rule: the minimum age, the availability of diversion, the possibility of transfer to adult court, or the existence of a restorative justice program. Those are important starting points. They are not always the rules that determine what actually [...]
The United States Constitution is the oldest written national charter still in force anywhere in the world, and the men who drafted it in 1787 worked in a predemocratic era, for a country whose leaders did not yet trust ordinary people to govern themselves. Some of what they produced is admirable. Other parts of it [...]
