Jennifer Huddleston On September 2, 2025, Judge Amit Mehta ruled on the remedies related to his previous finding that Google’s search distribution agreements with web browsers and smartphones had violated antitrust laws. While the decision focused only on this one element, the Department of Justice’s initial request for remedies had been extremely broad and could have resulted in a breakup ...
Adam N. Michel and Dominik Lett Republicans are talking about another budget reconciliation bill: Reconciliation 2.0. The question is whether Congress should give it a try. The short answer: only if it shrinks the size and scope of the federal government. The first reconciliation package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), was a mixed bag. Reconciliation 2.0 could fix ...
Mike Fox When my fellow Suffolk Law alumnus and current Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan had a bit too much to drink, she could have simply called it a night. Instead, she chose to stay, refusing to comply with directives from the staff at Newport’s Clarke Cook House to leave. The restaurant staff, with no other ...
Colleen Hroncich “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” These lyrics from the song Freewill, by the Canadian rock band Rush, resonate with me whenever I have a difficult decision to make. While it may be tempting to kick the can down the road, these lyrics remind me that not deciding is itself making a ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Politicians, commentators, and lobby organizations alike have been sounding the alarm that the increasing age of first-time homebuyers is the latest evidence of a housing affordability crisis. But do the data really support that view? Many, if not most, of these claimants are getting their numbers from the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) 2024 Profile ...
Chris Edwards The US Postal Service (USPS) is losing billions of dollars and has a bleak outlook. One reason why is that young people have gone digital and have little use for letter mail. With the continued relentless decline of letters in the coming years, roughly half of the USPS’s current revenues may disappear. Demographic data on postal system use ...
Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo On September 1, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Trump may declare a “housing emergency” in the fall. This move comes after a long list of politicians, commentators, and think tanks have deemed the US housing market to be in a “crisis” that demands immediate federal government action. Additionally, Bessent has claimed that administration officials ...
David J. Bier Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is diverting criminal law enforcement agents away from their investigations and enforcement responsibilities to conduct civil immigration enforcement operations on a massive scale. New data highlight how widespread this misuse of government personnel and resources is. Congress should prevent this diversion of appropriated funds in the next government spending bill. According to ...
Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often, the answer is “both.” The classic illustration is US alcohol prohibition. Baptists thought it saved souls; Bootleggers believed it generated excess profits for those willing to break the law. New research applies this perspective to the rise and fall of ...
Matthew Cavedon Architecture can say a lot. The places that do the citizens’ work with the taxpayers’ money should be meaningfully open forums, not defiantly hostile fortresses (like, say, Boston’s City Hall, a notorious concrete middle finger to the public). That is especially the case for courts. While they face security challenges, the Constitution requires all their proceedings to be ...