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 CHICAGO — As the Google antitrust trial winds down, corporate opposition to antitrust reform in the United States is winding up, and not by coincidence. With the trial having once again revealed the prevalence of anticompetitive behaviour in the tech industry, big corporations are turning to Congress to block the two federal agencies tasked with antitrust enforcement, the

 CHICAGO — As the Google antitrust trial winds down, corporate opposition to antitrust reform in the United States is winding up, and not by coincidence. With the trial having once again revealed the prevalence of anticompetitive behaviour in the tech industry, big corporations are turning to Congress to block the two federal agencies tasked with antitrust enforcement, the

Eric Posner examines the tech industry's response to the overdue return of antitrust enforcement in the United States

This will cause many people who are already losing confidence in democracy or the U.S. system to lose even more confidence.

Stories about campus discussions of Israel and Palestine, Marvel's box office flop, Snoop Dogg, and more.

The courts alone can’t save democracy twenty eleventh edition

One of the most important questions in American constitutional politics is whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from holding the presidency again.

CHICAGO — A new legal effort to prevent Donald Trump from retaking the presidency next year is afoot. Its backers rely on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which bars from office anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion … or given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the United States.

Putin’s ambitions reach beyond Russia’s near abroad and to the international system itself, in which it seeks to regain and retain its position as a great power.

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles confirm the deeply corrupt and repulsive character of the...