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The Supreme Court Quietly Killed SEC Independence
August 6, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: When the Supreme Court voted narrowly to preserve the independence of the Federal Reserve at the end of June, many…
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Biden’s flagship ‘green bank’ program may soon be back
August 6, 2026
For a year and half, $17 billion intended to help stem the tide of climate change has been gathering dust in bank vaults. But that…
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What Is David Ellison’s Breaking Point?
August 6, 2026
David Ellison and the leadership team at Paramount expected to spend much of the summer settling into new digs with Warner Bros. Discovery. A few…
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An article co-written by Sharon Block: Two trends are dominating this summer – high temperatures and high inflation. These two extremes combine to create a…
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The Curiosity Desk
August 4, 2026
We talk with Harvard Law Professor Jacob [Gersen] about Nix v. Hedden, the 1893 Supreme Court that officially classified tomatoes as a fruit in the…
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Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package Requires Tesla Stock to Grow Roughly Sixfold to an $8.5 Trillion Value
August 4, 2026
Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk in November, the largest corporate compensation plan in history, but claiming the full…
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Populists Have Always Hated the Senate. How Does It Survive?
August 3, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: As the Democratic Socialists of America bash the Senate, calling for its abolition, many Republicans and conservatives are bashing the DSA,…
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The discovery that prosecutors under previous District Attorney Tony Rackaukas secretly cheated by illegally using jailhouse informants to gain convictions left a large stain on…
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After sweeping SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling, Trump wields it broadly in push for power
August 3, 2026
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s monumental 2024 decision granting President Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution, the ruling’s broader impact on American government…
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Study Reveals Hidden Health Risks of Cheap Foods
August 3, 2026
A recent study from Yuka and Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic finds that in the United States, cheap foods are more likely…
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Ted Benna built the 401(k) 40 years ago — now he wants Americans to ditch their plans for something more simple
August 3, 2026
For high-income earners, the 401(k) has proved to be a successful wealth-builder — there’s even a record number of 401(k) millionaires. But the man known…
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Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen grinned as he told me about how his AI agent, Olive, runs his life. Olive answers many of the 55-year-old’s texts…
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NLRB Noms Advance On Tight Timeline For Keeping Quorum
July 16, 2026
The clock is ticking for Congress to avoid another quorum lapse at the National Labor Relations Board after the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and…
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OpenAI and Anthropic Put Prophets Before Profits
July 16, 2026
An op-ed by Jesse Fried: As OpenAI and Anthropic head toward initial public offerings, investors may be surprised to learn who controls each of these…
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI operated 59 natural gas turbines without a single required federal clean-air permit to power its Colossus 2 supercomputing campus…
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AI Data Centers Are Raising Your Power Bill: White House Expands Pledge Amid Tariff Gap
July 14, 2026
John Steinbach has lived in his Manassas, Virginia home for nearly 40 years. His January 2026 electricity bill — $281, roughly triple what he normally…
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In a unanimous, bipartisan ruling this spring, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accused Durham company American Efficient of operating “one of the largest and most…
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The See-No-Evil Supreme Court
July 14, 2026
The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that the United States plans to “systematically disable” the International Criminal Court, an overt attack on a…
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The Trump administration’s decision to use the US Supreme Court’s unraveling of Chevron deference to delete the word “harm” from the Endangered Species Act is…
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How Founder Control Is Reshaping Public Markets
July 13, 2026
SpaceX’s record-setting IPO gave public investors access to one of the world’s most valuable companies, but not equal voting rights. CEO Elon Musk holds just…