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The stay on Trump's mail-in voting order
The justices lifted one injunction on standing grounds without deciding the order's legality, and two other court orders still block it before a September hearing.
Did seven data brokers break Maryland's new privacy law, or is the law reaching past what they sell?
A coalition wants Attorney General Anthony Brown to act against Penlink, Flock, Thomson Reuters and four other firms under a statute barely two months old, one whose reach turns on whether a license-plate scan is sensitive location data.
Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Piracy Settlement Does Not Touch Its Training Ruling
Judge William Alsup had already ruled that training Claude on lawfully bought books was fair use and only its pirated library was not, leaving open whether the roughly $3,000 a work the settlement set for that piracy should govern AI training broadly or only the stolen copies that produced it.
Does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” let the government deny birthright citizenship?
A divided Supreme Court struck down the president’s first order in June, and two narrower orders signed on August 6 have revived the fight over the same five words.
Trump's EPA moved to claw back $20 billion in climate grants. The older fight is whether a president must spend what Congress appropriated.
An en banc D.C. Circuit blocked the clawback 6-4, but rested on the Inflation Reduction Act's own spending mandate rather than the 1974 impoundment law, leaving the constitutional question where Nixon's defeat left it.
Congress Voted to End the Iran War. The Vote That Would Have Counted Failed.
18 American service members have died in a campaign now three months past the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock, and whether that clock binds the President turns on a question its own text leaves open: when a run of limited strikes becomes a war only Congress can declare.
July 2026The Fed Held Rates 9-3 in July. Three of Its Own Presidents Wanted to Hike.
Lorie Logan and two fellow regional Fed presidents dissented from Kevin Warsh's 9-3 hold, arguing that five years of above-target inflation demands a rate increase, while economists such as Mark Zandi and Janet Yellen call the inflation a tariff-and-energy supply shock no hike can fix.
Wisconsin Says a Bet on Your Own Election Can Cost You Your Vote. Kalshi Calls That Voter Suppression.
Wisconsin's 1849 election-betting law is one skirmish in a fight over whether a federal "swap" definition preempts state gambling law everywhere, and a divided federal appeals court has already split on the answer.
The strongest four-day-week evidence comes from firms that volunteered for it
Boston College and Cambridge researchers measured steady revenue and healthier staff in the firms that cut to four days; whether a legislated 32-hour week would do the same where work cannot be redesigned is the question Manhattan Institute and University College Cork economists press.
A US wealth tax would raise $250 billion a year, or $25 billion, depending on who is counting
Both camps want the largest American fortunes to pay more, so the argument over a yearly tax on net worth turns on a narrower question: whether such a tax can be valued, enforced, and collected at anything close to what its designers project.
One San Francisco study measured both the cost and the benefit of rent control
Mainstream economists read San Francisco's 1994 expansion as evidence that a rent cap shrinks the housing stock, while housing scholars read the same records as evidence that it keeps vulnerable tenants in place.
Should College Athletes Be Employees of the Schools They Play For?
The House settlement handed athletes a share of the revenue while its own approval order declined to say whether they are employees, leaving a question that Johnson v. NCAA presses in court and the SCORE Act would foreclose by statute.
The AI Copyright Fight Has Narrowed to One Fair-Use Factor
Developers and authors have nearly stopped arguing over whether training a model on a book transforms it. The fight that remains turns on whether the flood of machine-made competitors that training makes possible is a harm copyright's market-effect factor was built to stop.
Everyone Agrees to Stop Changing the Clocks. The Fight Is Which One to Keep.
The country's sleep scientists want the clock matched to the sun and the industries built on the after-work hour want it pushed forward, and each camp's loudest evidence comes from a source that declines to back it.
Both Sides of the SAT Debate Claim the Same Disadvantaged Student
Since 2022 a wave of selective universities has reinstated the SAT on evidence that scores predict who will thrive, while equity scholars counter that the same scores mostly proxy the wealth of the family that produced them.
Carbon Capture's Real Fight Is Cement's Chemistry Against the Oil Field
Climate models cannot close their books without it, most of the CO2 captured today is sold to push more oil out of the ground, and named engineers stake careers on both facts.
Is Social Media a Primary Cause of the Youth Mental-Health Crisis?
Australia's world-first under-16 ban has forced a decade-old research dispute into law: whether social media is driving the rise in adolescent depression and anxiety, or only tracking a crisis whose real causes lie elsewhere.
The Firing Power: Should the President Be Able to Remove Independent Regulators at Will?
In overruling a ninety-year-old precedent to let the President fire Federal Trade Commission members at will, the Supreme Court reopened a question serious constitutional thinkers still split on: whether democratic accountability or expert insulation better serves the public.
Was the United States Right to Decline a 16-Year USMCA Renewal?
By refusing to extend USMCA to 2036 in favor of yearly reviews, the Trump administration wagered leverage against certainty, and serious people disagree about which matters more.