Recent News

California’s plan to tax Trump-fund payouts turns the January 6 compensation fight into a broader test of fiscal legitimacy and equal treatment.

Ken Paxton’s runoff defeat of John Cornyn turns a safe-state Senate race into a test of whether loyalty politics can overpower accountability concerns.

Reuters reports that the FDA’s new enforcement discretion could let hundreds of vapes and nicotine pouches reach the market without licenses, after tobacco-industry lobbying.

The Pentagon is becoming the first serious customer for microreactors, and the bigger story is what happens when AI, defense, and off-grid power all collide.

The Trump administration restricted NIAID officials from communicating with the World Health Organization during an active Ebola epidemic. The cost is not diplomatic — it is operational, and ordinary people will pay it.

Seventy thousand Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts just certified the first ride-share union in U.S. history. The real fight is about whether workers or algorithms set the terms of the new labor market.

A Stanford-led study of 4 million job applications finds a single AI hiring vendor produces discriminatory outcomes for Black and Asian applicants across hundreds of employers, and the company’s own math was designed to hide it.

Pope Leo XIV’s first AI encyclical warns that artificial intelligence can widen inequality, weaken democracy and concentrate power in the hands of Big Tech.

Reuters reports the FDA’s looser vape and nicotine-pouch policy could benefit hundreds of products after heavy tobacco-industry lobbying.

AP reports Democrats are feuding over stock trading as they try to sharpen an anti-corruption case against Trump. The issue cuts because voters already understand the conflict.