It’s easy to assume that air pollution is a relic of America’s industrial past: a phenomenon that belonged to the age of steel mills and smog-choked skylines. But drive through the petrochemical corridor of Louisiana, or the refinery-lined neighb...
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These are the 26 words that serve as the foundation for many policy and jud...
Last year, Elon Musk proclaimed that AI was already smarter than the smartest person in the world, and soon will be smarter than all of the smartest people in the world collectively. No matter how one might feel about this statement, it is undeniable...
Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the program has changed dramatically. Dozens of opinions, orders and thousands of pages of court and...
Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the program has changed dramatically. Dozens of opinions, orders and thousands of pages of court and...
On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal appellate judge in Providence, and former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of R...
On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal appellate judge in Providence, and former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of R...
Hello, readers! The Supreme Court is on a bit of a break right now, as justices work on opinions and prepare for new oral arguments that will take place on February 24, 25 and 26. As such, I’d like to take this week to preview the case that will be...
Hello, readers! The Supreme Court is on a bit of a break right now, as justices work on opinions and prepare for new oral arguments that will take place on February 24, 25 and 26. As such, I’d like to take this week to preview the case that will be...
In Greensboro, NC there is a day center for the homeless called the Interactive Resource Center. The IRC assists people who are homeless set up services to aid their job search: a voicemail account, an email account, a P.O. Box, and the like. These a...
In Greensboro, NC there is a day center for the homeless called the Interactive Resource Center. The IRC assists people who are homeless set up services to aid their job search: a voicemail account, an email account, a P.O. Box, and the like. These a...
One morning last month, Rhode Islanders woke up to the news that the National Rifle Association had been charged with the second-largest campaign finance ethics violation in state history. In a settlement reached by the Rhode Island Board of Election...
One morning last month, Rhode Islanders woke up to the news that the National Rifle Association had been charged with the second-largest campaign finance ethics violation in state history. In a settlement reached by the Rhode Island Board of Election...
As Angela Merkel knows, United States authorities have a tricky relationship with phone privacy. After revelations of ongoing tapping of the Chancellor’s mobile phone, President Obama assured Merkel that her phone is no longer monitored by U.S....
As Angela Merkel knows, United States authorities have a tricky relationship with phone privacy. After revelations of ongoing tapping of the Chancellor’s mobile phone, President Obama assured Merkel that her phone is no longer monitored by U.S....
On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and anti-discrimination requirements on broadband providers. College students hold these principles of net neutralit...
On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and anti-discrimination requirements on broadband providers. College students hold these principles of net neutralit...
Mitt, the new documentary from Netflix about the failed presidential campaign of Governor Mitt Romney, doesn’t reveal much. The film is mostly a home movie of the Romney clan as they sit around various hotel rooms. Surrounded by family, Romney appe...
Mitt, the new documentary from Netflix about the failed presidential campaign of Governor Mitt Romney, doesn’t reveal much. The film is mostly a home movie of the Romney clan as they sit around various hotel rooms. Surrounded by family, Romney appe...
Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on Supreme Court news. I’m here this week to discuss a subject that is near and dear to my heart: women’s repro...
Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on Supreme Court news. I’m here this week to discuss a subject that is near and dear to my heart: women’s repro...
Recently, a bipartisan group of 17 governors signed a letter to Congress asking that highway funding be restored. You may not have heard, but the federal Highway Trust Fund is expected to run out in 2014. This may not cause you any alarm as you...
Recently, a bipartisan group of 17 governors signed a letter to Congress asking that highway funding be restored. You may not have heard, but the federal Highway Trust Fund is expected to run out in 2014. This may not cause you any alarm as you...
How does Germany’s prohibition of homeschooling threaten the civil liberties of American evangelicals? The short answer is: it doesn’t. Nevertheless, conservative groups are warning Americans that their freedom to homeschool is under fire after ...
How does Germany’s prohibition of homeschooling threaten the civil liberties of American evangelicals? The short answer is: it doesn’t. Nevertheless, conservative groups are warning Americans that their freedom to homeschool is under fire after ...
Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the Snowden disclosures continued to permeate the federal judiciary Wednesday with the filing of a motion in U....
Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the Snowden disclosures continued to permeate the federal judiciary Wednesday with the filing of a motion in U....