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Justice Stevens’s Dissenting Shakespeare Theory

August 5 & 12, 2019

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

Is the Gig Economy Working?

May 15, 2017

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

Out and Up

December 12, 2016

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

Starting Over

August 24, 2015
August 24, 2015

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

by Malcolm Gladwell

To Have and to Hold

May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015

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

by Jill Lepore

A New Kind of Spy & The Hunt for El Chapo

May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014

DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE
A New Kind of Spy
How China obtains American technological secrets.

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Interview

December 9, 2013

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