Introduction Almost everything written about the enzyme in 90% of North American cheese has missed the most consequential fact about it: the patents expired. Fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC), the genetically engineered coagulant developed by Pfizer and approved by the FDA in March 1990, is not protected intellectual property. The foundational patents lapsed years ago. The technology...
A commissioner in New York City’s municipal government put the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran on her official calendar while the United States and Iran were exchanging fire. The State Department found out about it from someone other than the city. The meeting was scrubbed only after federal officials sat down with City...
TRENTON — Three bills before the New Jersey Legislature would end the state’s status as one of the least-regulated homeschooling jurisdictions in the country. One would require families to register with their school district each year. One would require them to submit a curriculum aligned with state standards and an annual portfolio evaluated by a...
StubHub founder and chief executive Eric Baker is a part owner and managing partner of Andro Capital, an investment fund that operates as a professional ticket reseller and has sold tickets on StubHub since 2008, according to the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The relationship, along with a separate arrangement in...
America’s nonprofit sector is no longer a rounding error in the national economy. Federal data show tax-exempt organizations contributed more than $1.5 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product in 2024 — over 5 percent of the entire economy — while paying little or no federal income tax on most of what they earn. That scale...
Iowa now records the second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses in the United States, trailing only Kentucky, and is one of only a handful of states where the rate is still climbing while the national rate falls. Much of the public debate has centered on the state’s intensive agriculture — and, increasingly, on glyphosate, the...
Two unrelated developments in American popular culture converged in the fall of 2025 and, together, revived a long-running argument about race, representation and the fate of diversity initiatives. In late October, Billboard reported that its Hot 100 chart had, for the first time since 1990, no rap songs in its top 40. Months later, the...
ActBlue, the online payment processor behind the bulk of small-dollar fundraising for Democratic candidates and progressive causes, is at the center of a widening dispute over how it screens donations for fraud. Congressional investigators, several state attorneys general, and the platform’s own outside lawyers have raised questions about whether ActBlue’s internal controls did enough to...
A decades-old assumption underlies American antitrust law: that competing companies are run by rivals with opposing interests. A growing body of legal and economic scholarship—and now a federal lawsuit proceeding in Texas—is testing whether that assumption still holds when the same small group of asset managers ranks among the largest shareholders of nearly every major...
Democratic socialists scored a broad set of victories in New York’s June 23, 2026, primary elections, ousting two sitting members of Congress and expanding their bloc in the state legislature. The results have prompted competing explanations among political analysts, who disagree over whether the outcome reflects a genuine embrace of socialist policy, a shift in...