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The Law-Firm Fight Is a Test of Whether Power Can Punish Representation
A federal appeals court pressed the Trump administration on executive orders targeting major law firms, a dispute about whether presidential power can punish legal representation.
Read MoreBig Tech’s Newest Lobbyists Are Wearing Sesame Street Costumes
Meta and Google are funding trusted children’s brands as critics warn the partnerships soften scrutiny of platforms built to capture young users’ attention.
Read MoreThe Abortion Pill Fight Is Now a Trust Fight Over the FDA
The Supreme Court let mail delivery of mifepristone continue, keeping the abortion-pill fight focused on FDA authority, state power and institutional trust.
Read MoreXi’s Taiwan Warning Shows the Price of Mixing Trade Theater with War Risk
Xi Jinping’s warning to Trump over Taiwan shows how quickly trade diplomacy, CEO access, and war-risk management can collapse into the same negotiation.
Read MoreThe Pancreatic Cancer Drug Rush Is Also a Healthcare Capacity Test
A promising experimental pancreatic cancer drug is exposing the gap between FDA access headlines and the real institutional capacity patients need to use them.
Read MoreMicrosoft Is Shopping for an AI Escape Hatch from OpenAI
Microsoft’s reported hunt for AI startup deals shows that the next phase of the AI boom is about leverage, scarce talent, and bargaining power — not just better chatbots.
Read MoreA Judge Just Reminded Washington That Sanctions Are Not a Speech Code
A federal judge’s order blocking sanctions against a UN expert is a narrow legal ruling with a bigger warning: financial power is becoming a speech weapon.
Read MoreVance’s Medicaid Threat Turns Anti-Fraud Into a Health-Care Power Play
A serious anti-fraud effort should protect Medicaid and Medicare. Threatening whole-state funding turns a compliance problem into a structural trust problem.
Read MoreAI Power Demand Just Turned Geothermal Into a Wall Street Story
Fervo Energy’s $10 billion IPO valuation is not just a clean-energy market story. It is another sign that AI is turning electricity into the real bottleneck of the platform economy.
Read MorePublic Corruption Becomes Normal When Pardons Become Political Cleanup
NPR reports that Trump has pardoned at least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators charged with or convicted of corruption offenses since returning to office.
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