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Remapping relaunches April 9!

(A momentous date in American history.) We believe that the "why" and "why not" questions of public policy are still too rarely addressed. A bevy of underlying assumptions (including those about practicality and popularity) constricts the robustness of policy debate, even at moments when very large decisions are being made. Our principal job is to ask those "why" and "why not" questions. Learn more.

For Big Law is an honourable calling

Editorial Cartoons | By Kevin Necessary

A cartoonist's view in the wake of so many being "shocked, just shocked" that Paul Weiss didn't stand up to the Trump administration and of very few large law firms speaking out.

“The brief is a study in manipulating the law and burying the facts to persuade the judge that there is only one course of action properly open to him”

Did Paul Clement play it straight?

Story Repair | By Craig Gurian

Assigned by the presiding judge in the Mayor Adams case to grapple with issues raised by alleged improper conduct by DOJ in seeking dismissal, former Solicitor General appears to falsely pretend that "all roads" lead to a dismissal with prejudice (and not denial of leave to dismiss). We annotate the brief and ask you to consider: did Clement fairly make his case?

Speaker Adams opposing effective fair housing enforcement?

Commentary | By Craig Gurian

She has blocked a critical fair-housing enforcement bill that would bring transparency and accountability to the coop admissions process.

From the archives

Cuomo to the 1 percent: here's a tax cut for Christmas

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

If you have an adjusted gross income of $1.8 million, for example, and file a joint tax return, New York's Andrew Cuomo has engineered annual tax savings for you of $27,280 in future years.

Taxes

Citizens without obligations?

Original Reporting | By Mike Alberti

Very few American-based corporations we contacted acknowledged any national obligations, suggesting a clear disjunction between how individual and corporate citizenship is perceived.

Citizenship Corporations Politics

Congress ties Postal Service into knots

Original Reporting | By Kevin C. Brown

Told to operate like a business but prevented from thriving like one, the Postal Service is the victim of politicians who either wanted it fail or had a remarkable lack of foresight.

Government services Role of government

Lyric of the week

Apr 2, 2025

And now I’m walkin’
This street on my own
But she’s with me
Everywhere I go

I found an angel
I found my place
And can only thank God
it was not too late

"Angel Dream (No. 2),"

Tom Petty (this version from Live Anthology, 2009)

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