I have some news: I gave up my position on the faculty of the UConn School of Law at the end of the Fall 2021 semester. It’s a bit unusual to walk away from a job as a tenured law professor—which is a fantastic gig, by the way—at the age…

This morning, Democrats are feeling pretty good. We shouldn’t be. With many races still too close to call, it appears that this year’s elections were not quite the cataclysm for Democrats that they could have been. We have a decent chance of preserving a 50–50 tie in the Senate and…

… Mi innamorai di te. I first traveled to Naples in 1996 as a writer for The Berkeley Guides, a now-defunct series of travel guides. I chose to cover Southern Italy because I had a friend who lived in Naples whom I had met in a German language program in…

Think about your phone. In addition to all the other things you can do with it, you can call or text people—family, friends, the dogwalker, the babysitter, the pizza place—in an instant. And, for most people in these days of unlimited calling and texting, the marginal cost of communication is…

That’s not good. As one of my friends reminded me, if David Brooks says something, the opposite must be true. …

Do statins increase the risk of diabetes? That’s the title of a recent article in The New York Times that was undoubtedly read by hundreds of thousands of people with high cholesterol. (Statins are the class of drug that is the most common medication used to treat high “bad” cholesterol.) …

Or maybe not. Most Americans probably get their ideas about the criminal legal system from what we used to call television — from shows like Law and Order and its progeny, where determined, hard-drinking, salt-of-the-earth detectives arrest suspects while reading them their Miranda rights — including the right to a…

If you know who Adnan Syed is, you know because of season one of Serial, the This American Life spinoff hosted by Sarah Koenig that became the biggest podcast of all time back in 2014. The podcast investigated Syed’s conviction in 2000 for murdering his former high school girlfriend, Hae…

Asset management firms’ accumulation of ownership shares has significant implications on the distribution of economic power — Last week I testified before the Senate Committee on the Budget on the invitation of Senator Bernie Sanders. The hearing was also about private equity, but I focused on concentration among large asset management firms—in particular, the economic power accrued by BlackRock, Vanguard, and (to a lesser extent) State Street…