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As the housing affordability crisis in the U.S. has intensified, it has also become a political flashpoint. In response, a growing bipartisan consensus has coalesced around a supply-oriented solution: remove the regulatory barriers—including zoning restrictions and environmental review requirements—that stand in the way of developers building more housing; eventually and inev...

This post is part of a symposium on international law under the second Trump administration. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** The Canadian Prime Minister arrives at Davos. Not quite Nietzsche’s lantern-bearing madman running to the marketplace to announce the death of God, he nonetheless comes to shatter an illusion. He will announce that the “international rules-bas...

This post is part of a symposium on international law under the second Trump administration. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** During his most recent campaign, President Trump promised to launch “the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.” In his first year back in office, that general ambition became a more specific aspiration: to remove ...

This post is part of a symposium on international law under the second Trump administration. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** It was morning on Easter Sunday when I started to think about nuclear war. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” the U.S. president railed on TruthSocial, addressing the Iranian government, “or you’ll be living in Hell.” A couple days...

On Monday, Ntina Tzouvala and Zohra Ahmed kicked off a series on international law under the second Trump administration. They posit that the current moment signifies a genuine departure from the US commitment to the liberal international legal order, while also insisting that it was the contradictions of that system that precipitated this rupture. On Tuesday, Dylan Saba expl...