Susan Estrich
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Maybe, eventually, history will get someone's attentionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - There were two TVs on in the gym. The one in the front - where all the training goes on - showed two teams from somewhere else battling for a ball. The one in the back,...
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The political risks of perfection in ad targetingJan 14, 2020 12:00 am - When I go on Facebook, I don't see many ads for garden equipment, power tools or even big TVs and sound systems. But comfortable work clothes for a woman of a certain ag...
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It's not just the president who is on trialDec 20, 2019 12:00 am - In other news, can you believe Christmas is next week? I mean, who has bought anything? It just jumped on us, like impeachment, but you need gift wrap and tape. I have n...
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The perfect and the good and the shame in betweenDec 31, 2012 4:00 am - What happened to that millisecond after the election when both the president and the speaker said they’d heard the message that Americans wanted the two parties to work ...
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Politics and personal responsibilityDec 26, 2012 4:00 am - In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, every politician who has me on his or her email list — and there are many, on both sides of the aisle — has been filling my i...
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Christmas in Santa MonicaDec 17, 2012 4:00 am - Christmas in my home city of Santa Monica is different this year. It used to be that there were elaborate displays depicting the birth of Jesus in the big public park by...
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The miracle of the rule of lawDec 10, 2012 4:00 am - It’s easy, as a law professor and practicing lawyer, to take the rule of law for granted and even to question its existence. In my classes, I teach students cases in whi...
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Who’s depressed now?Nov 30, 2012 4:00 am - It seems hard to believe that the election was only three short weeks ago, and that even as the results were coming in proving Nate Silver (the much maligned New York Ti...
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Looking at the glass half fullNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Like many people, I have a tendency to spend more time thinking about what’s wrong than what’s right, what’s missing rather than what is there, what I don’t have instead...
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An officer and a gentlemanNov 20, 2012 4:00 am - Something very wrong has just gone down. It’s played out so much like a soap opera, for those following the twists and turns of who sent whom a shirtless photo, but at i...