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Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has continued its aggressive expansion of executive power. It has purged federal officials, firing all 22 members of an independent board overseeing the National Science Foundation; it has argued that both the Presidential Records Act and the War Powers Act represent unconstitutional constraints on executive power; and it has ...

This piece is co-published with the New York City Policy Forum, a new research and publishing network dedicated to governance in New York City. ** ** ** Tomorrow, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) will make its preliminary determination of next year’s rent increase for nearly 2.5 million tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments. Weeks of public hearings across...

Late last year, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and a sustainability consulting firm published their joint report titled “The Link Between LGBTQ+ Inclusion And Business Performance.” Drawing from HRC’s decades of data on corporate diversity practices, the report found that queer-friendly firms have typically enjoyed higher revenue growth, net income, gross profit, and stock p...

On Monday, we brought you our spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. People are calling it “sold gold and ton heavy,” a “fabulous list,” and “roughly 1.2 million words of scholarship that I now need to find time to read.” On Wednesday, Andrew Miller argued that as personalized pricing and consumer profiling spread, hidden patterns of ...

The prices are too damn high. On that, basically everyone can agree. But what if your prices are higher than mine? For the same thing, at the same time? As the LPE Blog recently covered, it turns out that hidden personalized pricing is far more common than many people think. From big-ticket items like flights and hotel rooms to everyday purchases like food, when we see a pric...