Lawyer

The Internet doesn't just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research, simultaneous screens and raw debate footage that anyone can scan online, at any time.

Parties are fun, but they don't create community.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.

Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it's not hard to see how a bribery charge can feel like a technical argument instead of a moral one.

Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different creative impulses.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

It's one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It's not an add-on policy. It's something that affects everybody's life.

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.

You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

The way we fund campaigns is a feminist issue and a race issue. If you want more representation, you can't say it's going to be really expensive to run for office and you need a rolodex of billionaires.