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- Iowa’s Rising Cancer Rates Collide With a Federal Order Shielding GlyphosateIowa 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…
- Rap Falls Out of the Billboard Top 40 as the Lakers Project an All-White Starting Five: A Look at the ‘DEI Backlash’ Debate Behind the HeadlinesTwo 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…
- Inside the Fight Over ActBlue’s Fraud Controls: How the Platform Says It Handles Suspicious Donations — and Why Investigators Say It Fell ShortActBlue, 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…
- As ‘Common Ownership’ Reaches the Courts, Regulators Weigh Whether Antitrust Law Should Rethink What Counts as a MonopolyA 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…
- Socialist Wins Sweep New York Primaries: A Mandate for the Left, or Something Narrower?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…
- Ideology or Industry? Why a Hunger Advocate Wouldn’t Concede That Soda Is UnhealthyWhen a witness before Congress declines to affirm something nearly every cardiologist in the country accepts, the moment tends to outlast the hearing. That is what happened June 25, 2026, when Gina Plata-Niño of the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) repeatedly would not give a direct answer on whether sugary soda is healthy or…
- When the World’s Most Famous Arena Goes Dark for a Billionaire’s Wedding, Who Pays the Tab?Introduction Over the July 4 weekend, the busiest travel stretch of the summer, a stretch of Midtown Manhattan around Madison Square Garden is set to go quiet — not for a parade, not for the nation’s 250th birthday, but for what is widely reported to be the wedding of pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas…
- New York’s Push to Tax House Flippers: Market Correction or Government Overreach?Introduction A New York State proposal to tax house flippers is back before lawmakers, reviving a debate over whether short-term real estate speculation drives up home prices in working-class neighborhoods—or whether taxing it is government overreach into a market that depends on private investment to renovate aging housing stock. The End Predatory Home Flipping Act,…
- Buying Around the Constitution: How Governments Use Data Brokers to Sidestep Privacy Protections Without Breaking the LawFederal and state agencies are increasingly obtaining Americans’ personal data not by passing new surveillance laws or obtaining warrants, but by purchasing it on the open market. Because the information is bought as a commercial product rather than seized, the practice operates within existing statutes while bypassing the legal process those statutes were designed to…
- Higher Needs, Higher Pay: How Foster Care’s Tiered Payments Intersect With Medication and School OutcomesAcross the United States, foster parents are not paid a single flat rate for every child. Reimbursement is layered: states pay a base amount for routine care and progressively higher amounts for children assessed as having greater behavioral, emotional, or medical needs. Those higher tiers — labeled “special,” “exceptional,” “specialized,” or “difficulty of care” depending…
- When the Shelf Knows Your Name: How Kroger’s Digital Pricing and Data Surveillance Could IntertwineTwo of Kroger’s most significant modernization efforts have, until recently, been discussed largely in isolation. One is the rollout of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) — the digital price tags now installed in roughly one in four of the company’s stores nationwide, which let prices be changed instantly from a central computer. The other is Kroger’s…
- ‘Ghost Students’ and AI Bots Are Draining Federal Financial Aid. Here’s How Big the Problem Has BecomeAcross the United States, colleges are discovering that a growing share of the people on their class rosters do not exist. Known as “ghost students,” these are fraudulent or stolen identities used by individuals and organized crime rings to enroll in online courses, claim federal financial aid, and disappear once the money is disbursed. The…
- Independent “Rape Gang” Report Renews Scrutiny of British State’s Role in Decades of Child Sexual ExploitationA privately funded inquiry led by independent Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe has reignited debate over how British institutions — including police forces, local councils, and successive governments — responded to organised child sexual exploitation, commonly referred to as the “grooming gangs” scandal. The 219-page document, titled The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, was released on…
- Why California Is Still Counting Votes — and Whether the Delays Reach the 2026 MidtermsEleven days after California’s June 2 primary, election officials in the nation’s most populous state were still counting ballots. The slow pace drew national attention, a federal review of ballot counting in Los Angeles County, and renewed political attacks on how the state runs its elections. The episode revived a recurring question: is California’s lengthy…
- How Race and Jury Selection Shaped the Karmelo Anthony Murder TrialA Collin County, Texas, jury convicted 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony of first-degree murder on June 9, 2026, in the 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, then sentenced him the following day to 35 years in prison. The verdict closed a trial that had drawn national attention for more than a year, much of it focused…
- Collapse of Alexandra Lozano Immigration Law Leaves Tens of Thousands of Clients Facing Uncertain StatusA high-volume immigration law firm that built a national following on the promise of “legal miracles” has shut down, leaving questions over the immigration cases of tens of thousands of clients. Luz Legal — formerly known as Alexandra Lozano Immigration Law — announced its permanent closure in June 2026, weeks after its founder surrendered her…
- Inside the American Diabetes Association’s Finances: Corporate Funding, Spending Priorities, and Conflict-of-Interest QuestionsThe American Diabetes Association (ADA), one of the largest diabetes-focused nonprofits in the United States, reported $157 million in revenue and $134 million in expenses for its 2024 fiscal year. As the publisher of the annual Standards of Care in Diabetes—the reference document most U.S. clinicians consult to treat the disease—the organization holds significant influence…
- One Algorithm, Many Employers: Stanford Study Finds Shared AI Hiring Tools Reject the Same Candidates Across CompaniesA new Stanford-led study has found that when many employers rely on a single artificial-intelligence vendor to screen job applicants, the same candidates can be rejected at company after company — not because each employer reached an independent decision, but because one shared algorithm reached the decision for all of them. The research, titled “Algorithmic…
- Hiding in Plain Sight: How the Agri Stats Settlement Exposed Price Coordination Operating Under the Cover of InflationWhen grocery prices surged across the United States during 2021 and 2022, most consumers blamed inflation. Rising fuel costs, supply-chain disruptions, labor shortages, and broader economic pressures appeared to offer a straightforward explanation for higher food bills. A newly settled antitrust case involving Agri Stats, Inc., however, has renewed a more complex debate among economists…
- MBA Hiring Cools for a Third Straight Year as Employers Turn More SelectiveIntroduction Hiring of newly minted Master of Business Administration graduates has softened for a third consecutive year, with placement rates at several of the most selective U.S. programs falling to their lowest levels in more than a decade. The shift has reopened a long-running debate over the value of the degree at a time when…
- Fire From the Sky: How Cheap Drones and Ukraine’s “Dragon” Thermite Strikes Are Rewriting the Rules of WarPicture a trench somewhere along the eastern front in Ukraine. It’s dark, it’s cold, and the soldiers in it have done everything right — dug in deep, parked under tree cover, stayed quiet. For most of military history, that would have been enough to stay hidden for a night. Then a faint buzzing drifts in…
- Mamdani’s Housing Plan Revives NYC Third Party Transfer Program Amid Legal ScrutinyNew Housing Proposal Would Bring Back Controversial Property Transfer Tool New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly announced housing strategy is reigniting debate over one of the city’s most controversial affordable housing enforcement tools. Unveiled on May 26, the administration’s “Block by Block” housing initiative includes a program known as “Fix the City,” an enforcement…
- How Free Apps Like Life360 and GasBuddy May Increase Your Auto Insurance PremiumsMany consumers assume that free apps earn revenue through advertising. However, some popular mobile applications generate additional income by collecting and sharing user data—including information about driving habits. Privacy advocates, regulators, and consumer protection groups have increasingly raised concerns about how driving behavior data gathered through smartphone apps can ultimately influence auto insurance underwriting decisions….
- Automakers Are Becoming Data Companies: How GM, Ford, Tesla and Stellantis Plan to Generate Billions From Driver DataThe global automotive industry is quietly undergoing one of the largest business model transformations in its history. For more than a century, automakers generated revenue primarily through vehicle sales and financing. Today, companies including General Motors, Ford, Stellantis and Tesla are pursuing a different objective: turning every connected vehicle into a recurring revenue platform. According…
- How a License Plate Becomes a Person: Inside the Correlation Pipeline That Connects Cameras, DMVs and InsurersIntroduction A license plate is, by itself, an anonymous string of seven or eight characters. The privacy implications of the surveillance economy documented in Parts 1 and 2 of this series depend entirely on the ability of commercial actors to convert that string into a named individual — with an address, a phone number, a…