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Harvard and the Housing Crisis: The Non-Profit Corporate Landlord Behind Boston’s Housing Crisis
Harvard is a source of rising housing costs and community displacement.
Sarah Rosenkrantz
Big Law’s Capture of Students of Color
How and Why Harvard Law students of color are being funneled into Big Law
Rosie Kaur
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The [F]law on "Defending Climate Villains"
Members of SJP’s The [F]law magazine challenge Appiah’s apologetics in this Twitter thread.
The [F]law
The Blind-Eye Blizzard: How a winter storm captured the Texas regulatory body
Despite knowing its electric grid was vulnerable, Texas was still devastated by the 2021 storm. Why?
Zach Berru
“Safe” and “Effective”?: IUDs and the Corporate Power Problem
IUD manufacturers know about the life-altering health risks of IUDs, but often hide this information–instead marketing them as “safe” and “effective”
Sarah Zahedi
Land is a bank account: A journey into the polluted heart(land) of American agriculture
A brief journey through agricultural capitalism.
Liz Turner
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Superhero Corporations: Saving The[ir] World — One Dollar at a Time
Corporations and billionaires — modern day superheroes or villains?
Tyler Price
Donations for Dispossession: How a Palestinian school became the site of charity-funded colonialism
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is engineered by American non-profits.
Lea Kayali
Signing Away Your Rights: Forced Arbitration—Overcoming Corporate “Get Out Jail Free Cards” and Finding Avenues for Justice
Forced Arbitration has taken away peoples’ day in court. Finally, plaintiffs are fighting back.
Amy Hayes
Freedom from Domination: A Revival of Antitrust Law and the Will to Choose Democracy
Consolidation and monopolization have become the norm and competitive open markets the exception
Luke Hinrichs
Captive Market: Commercial Bail Bonds in America
Corporate wealth extraction in the American commercial bail bonds industry.
Riley Evans
From Walls to Shackles: The Big Business of Electronically Monitoring Immigrants
Immigrants are being watched, and corporations are profiting.
Connie Cheng
Secrets of the Heartland: The battle to see inside Iowa’s factory farms
Iowa’s war against factory farm investigators.
Jeremiah Scanlan
Selling Sovereignty: How Corporations Used Tribal Sovereign Immunity to Evade Regulation and Exploit Consumers
When corporations manipulate tribal sovereign immunity, the working poor lose.
Gabrielle (Gabe) Crofford
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Corporate Predators and the USDA Revived Wolf Extermination in America
Government hunters are killing endangered wolves to satisfy corporate interests.
Benjamin Rankin
Seeking Environmental Justice in the U.S. Virgin Islands: St. Croix’s Battle with an Oil Refinery that Refuses to Die
St. Croix residents deal with pollution from an outdated oil refinery
Amelia Keyes
Gig Economy and the Future of Work
Uber & Lyft’s race to the bottom–an opportunity to redefine work
Shao Chang
The Costs of Carceral Communications: How a Prison Telecommunications Company Exploits Incarcerated People and Their Loved Ones
Prison telecommunications provider, Securus, gouges incarcerated people and their families.
Adriel Williams
Shots Fired, and Profited On: Inside the Campaign against “ShotSpotter” in Chicago
A controversial police technology company uses money, influence, and secrecy to benefit its bottom line. Can a group of Chicago organizers take it on?
Anna Bower
Marketplace of Violence: Bidding for Brutality Among Minnesota’s Police
How private companies incentivize public police to prioritize property over people.
Tala Alfoqaha
Brave New Work: The Resurgence of Organized Labor in the U.S.
How corporations destroyed worker power, and how the pandemic might bring it back.
Julio Colby
Take Their Children, Then Their Land
Private interests intend to destroy 44 years of Native American child welfare policy
Maggie Hagen
Plastic Recycling and Other Fairytales
How the Plastics Industry Used Recycling to Blame Consumers for the Plastic Crisis