Dept. of Wormholes
A Tale of Two Harveys
Stranger than fiction! One of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers represented a man who, in 1993, kidnapped another Harvey Weinstein and kept him captive for twelve days in a pit next to the West Side Highway.

by Bruce Handy

Dept. of Dissent
Justice Stevens’s Dissenting Shakespeare Theory
Among the late Supreme Court Justice’s controversial opinions: a belief that the Bard’s works were actually written by Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
by Tyler Foggatt

Dept. of Labor
Is the Gig Economy Working?
Many liberals have embraced the sharing economy. But can they survive it?
by Nathan Heller

Dept. of Higher Education
Out and Up
Formerly incarcerated undergrads started a group on campus to offer mentoring, support, and advocacy to other onetime inmates.
by Larissa MacFarquhar

Dept. of Social Studies
Starting Over
Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?
by Malcolm Gladwell

Dept. of Justice
To Have and to Hold
Reproduction, marriage, and the Constitution.
by Jill Lepore

DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Interview
Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?
by Douglas Starr