Alabama Governor Signs Bill Protecting IVF Treatments
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
The Royalty Transparency Act passed unanimously out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday.
A new bill would ban TikTok and give the president power to declare other social media apps off limits.
"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
A law forcing kids off social media sites is still likely coming to Florida.
"It is immoral that in a poor country like ours," the Argentine president said, "the government spends the people's money to buy the will of journalists."
Two libertarian experts on public ignorance continue a debate about conformism.
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What if Russia had landed on the moon before the United States?
Bryan Johnson, venture capitalist and founder of Blueprint, discusses his $2 million a year effort to reverse aging on Just Asking Questions.
While a disappointment to green-tech supporters, Apple's decision reflects the growing uncertainty in the E.V. market.
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
Maybe the problem for teens isn't screens, but what they are replacing.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.
A new economic paper explains why interest rates are the missing piece to understanding why people are unhappy about a seemingly strong economy.
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Byron Tau's Means of Control documents how the private sector helps government agencies keep tabs on American citizens.
The laws violate the First Amendment because they require social media sites to abjure most content moderation, and platform speech they disapprove of.
Both states are trying to force tech companies to platform certain sorts of speech.
A Biden administration ploy could give the federal government control over drug prices.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says more chip subsidies are needed, even before the Biden administration has distributed $52 billion or measured how effective that spending was.
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It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
Misled by a bad law, graduate students are drowning in debt.
Many apps collect data that is then accessed by outside entities. Should you care?
Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.
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In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.
And a federal judge just said so.
From limits on liability protections for websites to attempts to regulate the internet like a public utility, these proposals will erode Americans' right to express themselves.
The president criticized companies for selling "smaller-than-usual products" whose "price stays the same." But it was his and his predecessor's spending policies that caused the underlying issue.
"None of these laws prevent kids from viewing anything. They just prevent kids from posting," argues Shoshana Weissmann.
Banning people under age 16 from accessing social media without parental consent "is a breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing potential harms, the judge writes.
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Sen. Mike Lee's "technological exploitation" bill also redefines consent.
It was a week of bad news for the president. Fortunately for him, he probably won’t remember.
Maybe the problem for teens isn't screens, but what they are replacing.
The jury found no real damages, but gave a sizeable punitive award that could be challenged on appeal.
Throughout Republican-run Western states, lawmakers are passing legislation that treats adults as if they are children.
Interest in virtual private networks provides insights into a global battle over digital freedom.
More like total eclipse of the fun.
The Biden administration's interference with bookselling harks back to a 1963 Supreme Court case involving literature that Rhode Island deemed dangerous.
AI tools churning out images of fake IDs could help people get around online age-check laws.