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The FCC Fight Over “The View” Is Bigger Than One Talk Show
ABC’s FCC filing over “The View” is a warning about how regulatory power can chill political speech without ever needing an outright ban.
Read MoreHealth Policy Cannot Run on Shock Therapy
Reported HHS discussions about banning some SSRI antidepressants show how public-health trust breaks when agencies confuse reform with shock politics.
Read MoreThe AI Boom Is Turning Cloud Contracts Into Infrastructure Politics
Anthropic’s reported $1.8 billion Akamai compute deal shows AI’s real bottleneck is becoming infrastructure control, not chatbot demos.
Read MoreVirginia’s Court Just Showed Who Really Draws the Lines in American Politics
Virginia’s supreme court struck down Democratic-drawn congressional maps in a 4-3 ruling — not because gerrymandering is wrong, but because Democrats didn’t follow the procedural rules for overriding their own reform.
Read MoreThe Border Is the Excuse. The AI Surveillance Market Is the Product.
The Trump administration’s border spending has triggered an AI surveillance gold rush — and the companies racing to sell drone-and-camera systems to ICE aren’t going to stop at the border.
Read MoreThe FDA Commissioner Was Fired for Doing What Everyone Asked and Nobody Wanted
Trump plans to fire FDA chief Makary after criticism from pharma, conservative media, and anti-abortion groups — revealing how political pressure hollows out the one agency Americans trust to keep drugs safe.
Read MoreDOGE’s AI Grant Cuts Just Hit the Wall of Due Process
A federal judge’s rebuke of DOGE’s AI-assisted grant cancellations is a reminder that even popular cuts need lawful process.
Read MoreThe PFAS Rollback Is a Public-Health Trust Test
EPA’s planned PFAS rollback is not just a technical fight over chemicals. It is a test of whether public-health rules can survive political regime change.
Read MoreThe Grid Fix Politicians Keep Missing Is Already in the Apartment Window
A New York pilot shows why the next energy fight is not just power plants. It is who controls the flexible demand inside ordinary homes.
Read MoreTennessee Just Showed How the Supreme Court’s Redistricting Ruling Works in Practice
Tennessee enacted a new map erasing the state’s only majority-Black House district within a week of the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling—the first of several Southern states expected to follow.
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