This insight was originally published by Slate under the title The Trump Immunity Deal Is Neither a Deal Nor Does It Provide Immunity. A single sheet of paper sits somewhere in the files of the Justice Department announcing, in capital letters, that the United States is āFOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDEDā from pursuing any claims against … Read more
Here is a question worth asking at your next management meeting: which AI tools are our employees using, and what are they putting into them? If the honest answer is that nobody knows, your company is typical. It is also exposed. In a global survey released this month, 64 percent of employees admitted using AI tools … Read more
The Term Sheet Was Six Miles Wide. Why the dinosaurs never invented artificial intelligence is usually answered with brain to body mass ratios and a shortage of opposable thumbs. That answer is lazy. The dinosaurs came close. Their failure was not cognitive. It was structural, procedural and in the end catastrophically uninsured. Start with the … Read more
This article (with different graphics) was originally published on Slate in July 2026. The state of Alaska has spent the past 14 years trying to confiscate an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane because a passenger packed a six-pack of Budweiser with her groceries. That sentence is not a simplification. It is the whole case. And … Read more
Understanding what you qualify for and how to apply. If you’re a New Jersey homeowner or renter feeling the weight of property taxes, you’re not alone. The Garden State consistently ranks among the highest in the nation for property tax burdens, which is why the state has created several relief programs to help ease that … Read more
On July 4, 2026 the federal government launched Trump Accounts, a new tax-advantaged investment account for children created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If you have a baby born between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2028, the Treasury will deposit $1,000 into your child’s account. If you have older children, they can … Read more
The United States is regulating artificial intelligence the hard way. Congress has enacted exactly one AI-specific statute, the TAKE IT DOWN Act on nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, and comprehensive federal legislation remains stalled. Into that vacuum the states have poured roughly 1,200 AI bills, with 38 states adopting more than 100 AI laws in 2025 alone. January 1, … Read more
When Apple took the stage at WWDC 2024 and unveiled Apple Intelligence, the company made a specific promise to every iPhone buyer watching. Siri, Apple said, was about to become genuinely useful, capable of reading emails, understanding a user’s calendar, acting across apps and answering questions that actually required knowing something about a person’s life. … Read more
Costco sells roughly 157 million Kirkland Signature Seasoned Rotisserie Chickens a year, and it has held the price at $4.99 apiece for so long that the number itself has become part of the brand. That pricing discipline is now showing up in a federal court record. Two California shoppers sued Costco in the U.S. District … Read more
This article was originally published on Law360 in June 2026. On April 17, federal prosecutors unsealed a 10-count indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging the CEO and chief financial officer of iLearningEngines Inc., a corporate education and training company claiming to utilize artificial intelligence, with securities fraud, wire … Read more
There is a moment in every product launch when the gap between the promise and the reality becomes impossible to ignore. For the Trump Mobile T1 smartphone, that moment arrived from several directions at once. The phone was nine months late. It was no longer being marketed as made in America. The American flag printed … Read more