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Stephen Colbert’s Kamala Harris Interview Brought Together Two Beleaguered Symbols of Embattled Institutions

Stephen Colbert’s Kamala Harris Interview Brought Together Two Beleaguered Symbols of Embattled Institutions

To announce that she would not be running for any public office — including governor of California, a race she had already declined to enter in a...

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Alison Herman

The Ticketing Industry Is Broken: States, Not Congress, Must Act Now (Guest Post)

The Ticketing Industry Is Broken: States, Not Congress, Must Act Now (Guest Post)

In the op-ed below, Rachel Landy, an assistant professor at Cardozo School of Law specializing in contracts and copyright law, makes a the case for...

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Rachel Landy

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?

President Donald Trump and CBS parent company Paramount want you to think that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was canceled for “purely...

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Elizabeth Warren

Paramount’s Trump Lawsuit Settlement: Curtain Call for the First Amendment? (Guest Column)

A few weeks before the announcement in the wee hours of July 1 that Paramount Global and CBS were settling a widely derided lawsuit brought by...

03.07.2025 2

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Katie Fallow

Why Artists Must Own Their Data: Guest Post by WME’s Co-Head of Music Kirk M. Sommer

“Data” may be a wonky word but it has become as valuable as gold in the music business, where it often refers to contact information for fans...

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Kirk M. Sommer