I got to talk with two of the smartest people I know -- @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social -- about BORN IN FLAMES. Check out the latest @deathpanel.bsky.social here

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

John Roberts now faces the ultimate heartbreak: deciding whether to keep polishing Donald Trump's boots or to continue his lifelong romance with America's corporate overlords.

Today for @lpeblog.bsky.social I have a short piece on clinical academic freedom and the challenges we face in vindicating our rights as clinical faculty amid political interference. This piece stems from an Essay I have forthcoming on the topic in 2026. lpeproject.org/blog/clinics...

Last month on the blog, Darryl Li discussed some findings from the Middle East Studies Association's report on government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities alleging antisemitism. That report is now available in full:

“'Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,' noted Darryl Li, a professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of the report. 'Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.'”

Today, @gshans.bsky.social describes recent attacks on legal clinics by the federal government, and explains how clinical faculty and their allies can resist this political interference.

Today, Matthew Dimick argues that while antitrust may promise to tame corporate power, it leaves untouched the deeper logic of capitalism that compels production for profit’s sake. The latest in our mini-series on Marxism and Antitrust.

I have been really enjoying this series. Btw, for anyone interested in the potential (and even deeper tensions) in attempts to unite workers' movements for collective justice and antimonopolist smallholders movements for autonomy, may I suggest...

As @lpeblog.bsky.social says, I caught some strays in this one. Hope I'll have some time to respond over winter break, because we're entering productive territory here. I would agree that consumer protection is inherently limited & I know @sanjukta.bsky.social would agree that antitrust is...

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

More rigorous and clear than my initial entry

This has been a debate worth reading.

"antitrust refuses to see capital as something historical and social and therefore norm-based and changeable. As a result, antitrust chooses to fight capital with one hand tied behind its back, changing some of the constitutive rules of capitalism but not others."

New from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’ michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...

Today, Matthew Dimick argues that while antitrust may promise to tame corporate power, it leaves untouched the deeper logic of capitalism that compels production for profit’s sake. The latest in our mini-series on Marxism and Antitrust.

Week in review: @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social on the rise of OIRA 2.0, @noahzatz.bsky.social and Jerry Kang on retaliation lawsuits against DEI purges, and Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim on prefigurative lawyering. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web!

If you're looking for a super smart primer on how housing in NYC got so fucked in the first place, Phenomenal World has got you covered!! An absolute must-read by Cea Weaver! www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...

Week in review: @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social on the rise of OIRA 2.0, @noahzatz.bsky.social and Jerry Kang on retaliation lawsuits against DEI purges, and Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim on prefigurative lawyering. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web!

The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

"in our current moment, it is not a crisis of capitalism that challenges democracy, but its triumph."

I'm really excited to be a part of this over the coming years www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...

Today, Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim describe their approach to prefigurative lawyering at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old.

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

Today, Jerry Kang and @noahzatz.bsky.social argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the civil rights law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance.

"The very existence of a contested baseline—that is, disagreement about the..extent of discrimination in the ..system—provides a vector of counter-attack, esp for individuals purged.. for their past DEI work, a group that includes a high concentration of Black women." lpeproject.org/blog/can-dei...

In case you weren't aware, the great Noah Zatz has migrated to bsky. And with Jerry Kang, he has a terrific post about using retaliation lawsuits to push back against Trump’s extortionate demands to end DEI. As they conclude, "this is a time for aggressive experimentation, not resignation."

"In sum, then, employees doing DEI work to help prevent discrimination are engaged in protected opposition conduct under Title VII. Therefore, inflicting 'adverse employment actions' upon them because of such work constitutes illegal retaliation under Title VII."

"The Administration’s extraordinary abuses of power against our core institutions have triggered widespread cowardice dressed up as pragmatic survival... But if fear is the primal driver, we must activate countervailing fears wherever we can, to raise the expected costs of anticipatory capitulation"

Today, Jerry Kang and @noahzatz.bsky.social argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the civil rights law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance.

Really important analysis from @rooseveltinstitute.org about the structures and decisions that held back a more ambitious Biden Administration agenda that might have resonated more with the public and what should change in a future administration. 1/ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Today, @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors.

Last week @lpenyc.bsky.social did an event on the political economy of NYC, "How NYC Became So Unequal" with @llchristyll.bsky.social, @masonbwilliams.bsky.social, & Gregory Louis & it was everything you hope an event will be--informative, entertaining, energizing! WATCH IT!! youtu.be/B8beobsDZfU

"The support that Musk enjoys from the corporate dêmos, including Tesla’s numerous retail stockholders, seems tethered more closely to vibes than to quarterly profit margins." ICYMI: the great @katejackson.bsky.social on the populist underpinnings of Musk's compensation plan.

ICYMI

“The bill…empowers..the Office of Science & Tech Policy—to dole out nearly limitless exemptions from existing rules to individual businesses w/little transparency, accountability, or oversight.” lpeproject.org/blog/the-ris...

"conservatives are encountering a problem that has long been well understood by those on the Left: The rulemaking process is incredibly slow... OIRA 2.0 thus offers conservatives a convenient pathway for achieving almost immediately the functional equivalent of a full regulatory repeal."

Today, @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors.

A really astute post by @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-ris...

Check out my latest for @lpeblog.bsky.social: I trace the rise of a new form of politicized regulatory relief emanating from the White House, how it departs from centralized regulatory review at OIRA, and what it means for the political economy of the modern presidency lpeproject.org/blog/the-ris...

Week in review: @jamesftierney.bsky.social on Intel and American State Capitalism; David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany; and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web!

Week in review: @jamesftierney.bsky.social on Intel and American State Capitalism; David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany; and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web!

Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @aaup.org explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure. lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...

Thanks John Roberts!

“Acting collectively, colleges and universities could gain power by forging alliances—with each other and with professional organizations and unions—to fight effectively for these principles and the future of higher education.”

"Despite calls by faculty, students, and staff for collective action, college and university administrations have opted for an individualistic approach, which has led them to compromise and capitulate on principles that are fundamental to the university fulfilling its public mission."

Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @aaup.org explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure. lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...

Today, David Abraham examines how various fractions of capital—both in our time and during Weimar Germany—chose to abandon democracy in favor of an uncertain future.