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Jacob Pagano

Los Angeles, New York
JD @ColumbiaLaw ; incoming @covingtonllp; writing @Lawfare, @CriticalInquiry, @Narratively, @CLAscholar; English, BA @AmherstCollege, abroad @NewCollegeOx
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"Contrary to National Security": The Rise of the Entity List and Individualized Export Controls -...

"Contrary to National Security": The Rise of the Entity List and Individualized Export Controls -...

The Department of Commerce administers an "Entity List" of corporations and research institutions prohibited …

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First Circuit Expands Due Process Rights of Noncitizens at Immigration Bond Hearings

First Circuit Expands Due Process Rights of Noncitizens at Immigration Bond Hearings

On Aug. 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process claus…

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Reforming the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Afghans to Build Trust Abroad

Reforming the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Afghans to Build Trust Abroad

As tens of thousands of Afghans who aided the United States during its 20-year campaign seek to emigrate thro…

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Review of "The Other Digital China"

Review of "The Other Digital China"

Jing Wang. The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard …

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Can This Mild-Mannered Mediator Defeat Ilhan Omar?

Can This Mild-Mannered Mediator Defeat Ilhan Omar?

Antone Melton-Meaux is mounting a Democratic primary challenge to freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a national s…

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Portals to Humanity

Portals to Humanity

Some of my most memorable experiences at Amherst took place around a seminar table. Since graduating, I have …

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Distorting Reality

Distorting Reality

It's a common adage that documentary "gives a voice to the voiceless," allowing marginalized people to expres…

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An Itch for Things Remote - Critical Read

An Itch for Things Remote - Critical Read

I remember raindrops pattering the red leaves outside the library window. I remember taking a break from work…

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The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp

The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp

Interned during WWI, circus entertainer Joseph Pilates used found materials and his fellow prisoners as his t…

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Interracial Relationships Are Still Rare. But That Could Change

Interracial Relationships Are Still Rare. But That Could Change

When Matthew Tran, a 19-year-old Asian student, began his freshman year at UCLA, he was surprised to find the…

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Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion

Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion

The Inya River in southwestern Siberia winds through a landscape of striking seasonal changes. In the summer,…

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The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI

The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI

He sat at the same table each evening, sometimes with lighting and sometimes without, a cigarette often in ha…

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Fighting for an Education in Bronzeville: A Review of Eve L. Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard - T...

Fighting for an Education in Bronzeville: A Review of Eve L. Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard - T...

As a freshman at Amherst College in 2014, one of the most transformative courses I took was David Delaney's "…

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One Must Say Yes: Poetic Acts of Affirmation in Works by Baldwin, Fanon, and Ellison

One Must Say Yes: Poetic Acts of Affirmation in Works by Baldwin, Fanon, and Ellison

[O]ne must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found.... In the above quotation from James Baldwin …

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Contrary to National Security: The Rise of Entity List in U.S. Policy Towards China and Its Role ...

Contrary to National Security: The Rise of Entity List in U.S. Policy Towards China and Its Role ...

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