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Courts, rights, and the machinery of justice

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The Antitrust Revival Has an Ambition Problem

After forty years of weak enforcement, regulators have declared war on big tech. The legal victories are real. The structural change has not arrived.

Nathaniel BrooksMarch 10, 2026
Law

Three Million Cases, 700 Judges

The US immigration court backlog has reached a point where the legal system cannot function as designed. What this signals about due process in America's most overloaded court system.

Nathaniel Brooks11 min
Law

The First Amendment at the Crossroads

The speech protections Americans take for granted are facing challenges from both left and right that the Supreme Court has not yet fully addressed. What happens next matters enormously.

Nathaniel Brooks13 min
Law

The Court That Remade America

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority has moved faster and more broadly than even its architects expected. What the past three years tell us about where it is going next.

Nathaniel Brooks12 min
Law

Why American Corporations Are Almost Never Prosecuted

The Department of Justice has developed a system of deferred prosecution agreements that allows companies to avoid criminal convictions for conduct that would send an individual to prison. The system is working exactly as designed.

Nathaniel Brooks12 min