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As President Trump was leaning toward appointing Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court five years ago, some advisers shared doubts about whether she was…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants health agencies to use a lot more AI. After the MAHA report, experts have some concerns.
June 20, 2025
Last month as he defended his agency’s budget request to senators, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lofty promise about artificial intelligence: “The…
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Trump Organization unveils mobile phone service
June 20, 2025
President Donald Trump’s family business is licensing his name to a newly launched mobile phone service that promises gold smartphones and a $47-a-month price tag…
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Protests, Emergency Powers, and Petty Feuds
June 20, 2025
This week, with the military deployed to LA and readying to parade in DC, Jon is joined by Jill Lepore, Professor of History and Law…
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The Supreme Court this morning upheld a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, saying that it does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.
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The Culture Show Podcast: June 18, 2025
June 20, 2025
Historian, lawyer and Pulitzer-prize winning author Annette Gordon-Reed joins The Culture Show to talk about her latest book “On Juneteenth,” which explores the holiday commemorating…
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Los Angeles Monday, outraged by President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in their city over…
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A landmark legal bid to free three elephants from captivity in the Johannesburg Zoo has gained international traction, with heavyweight legal scholars from Harvard Law…
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DNA testing company 23andMe “obtained the consent from our customers” to transfer their genetic data, interim CEO Joseph Selsavage told lawmakers Wednesday. Selsavage’s assertion comes amid…
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In the president’s financial disclosure released on Friday, he reported more than $600 million in income from licensing deals, crypto projects, golf clubs and other…
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Harvard University has released a dataset of library books, named Institutional Books 1.0, for researchers, which contains over 394 million records, according to the AP. These materials, preserved and…
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Eight hundred and ten years ago, almost to the day, an English king agreed to a seminal document laying down principles that would help establish…
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Discrimination: Expanding the definition
June 20, 2025
“Reverse discrimination” lawsuits will now be “easier to bring,” said Noah Feldman in Bloomberg. The Supreme Court last week ruled unanimously in favor of a woman who argued…
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Law-Skepticism On The New Right: A Sympathetic Critique
June 20, 2025
An op-ed by Adrian Vermule One of the difficulties that afflict the classical lawyer is the constant need to fight a war on no less…
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismissal of a key panel that advises on immunizations policy is a significant step in implementing his longstanding…
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Trump backs off plan linking disaster aid, immigration
June 13, 2025
The Trump administration has retreated from a plan to make federal disaster aid conditional on states helping with immigration enforcement, a new court document shows.
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Trump EPA proposes repealing major air pollution and emissions limits for power plants
June 13, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution and planet-warming emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants,…
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Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository…
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Big Beautiful Bill would ban regulating AI
June 12, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Sharon Block: In 2022, few people had ever heard of ChatGPT or knew what “artificial intelligence” was. But in just a…
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‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’
June 12, 2025
President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming. In…
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Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and ship…