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The Impact of President Trump's Executive Actions

President Trump’s barrage of sweeping executive orders have broad implications for the federal government, higher education, business, and other institutions. And they also affect you and your family. 

To help make sense of these sweeping edicts, LDAD has launched an important new series, published in the Fulcrum, to explain the authoritarian roots of these orders in Project 2025 and how they fit within an overall plan to dismantle democracy.  

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The first 100 days—then and now

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Former Mass. AG calls on law firms to stand up to Trump

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