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Trump’s Posts May Prove Comey’s Vindictive and Selective Prosecution Claims
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (447+ words) Be careful what you say on social media, no matter how rich, famous, and powerful you are. Your posts could come back to haunt you when a defendant contends you’re prosecuting him to exact retribution on a perceived political enemy....
Quo Vadis Hispania? Part Two
18+ hour, 52+ min ago (612+ words) Mass immigration is arguably the most important demographic force at play in Europe today. It is also one of the most salient—and polarizing—issues in contemporary European politics. In our previous post we examined the case of Spain—a…...
Bessent’s Quixotic Attempt to Strengthen the Yen
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (282+ words) George Santanyana, the Spanish philosopher, famously said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Fast forward to Japan in 2026. Over the past year, the Japanese yen has depreciated by almost 10 percent to a low of…...
Here Come the Cyber Privateers
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (181+ words) A possible corollary to the truism “mo money mo problems” might be “more innovation, more problems.” Technological solutions to existing problems typically create new problems. Fossil fuels are a classic example. They powered the great acceleration in living standards of…...
Quo Vadis, Hispania? Part One
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (587+ words) Late last month the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, an enclave on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, was suddenly overrun by an influx of tens of thousands of migrants—overwhelmingly, young Moroccan men. (Spain’s Interior Minister…...
Human-by-Law: The Legal Prohibitions That Will Limit Transformative AI
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (558+ words) When reading Mark Zuckerberg’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, one passage made me take a second beat: While Zuck presents this as a thought experiment, it’s a yarn that could only come from the Bay Area. I’ve been…...
AI’s Singularity Might Start in the Shopping Cart
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (398+ words) Demis Hassabis—the outgoing head of Google DeepMind and incoming chief scientist of Alphabet, Google’s parent—might be correct. Last month, he wrote that artificial general intelligence “a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably…...
The Ebb and Flow (And Ebb) of Entry-Level Work
6+ day, 55+ min ago (370+ words) Released last month, Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS sorts 14.6 million Gemini conversations into jobs and associated tasks. The headline is reassuring: AI is assisting people, not replacing them. Its findings on the role of expertise may contradict this hopeful analysis…...
Another Parental-Consent Statute, Another Injunction: Lessons from Nebraska’s Sweeping Law
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (362+ words) Finally, social media platforms have expressive First Amendment rights to curate, organize, display, and serve lawful third-party content to users as “expressive products,” as the Court recognized in Moody v. NetChoice. Users and platforms thus both have First Amendment interests....
The Real Defense Spending Deadbeats: Spain or the US Congress?
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (162+ words) But aren’t we on the cusp of the biggest defense budget in history? Well, no really. The Republican Congress is failing to deliver and is rapidly running out of time to do so. Recognizing that and making sense of all…...