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 “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” 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
Name, image and likeness compensation for college athletes just passed its fifth anniversary, and the ground has shifted again. The House v. NCAA settlement, approved in June 2025, let schools pay athletes directly for the first time and built a new compliance apparatus around third-party deals. But the most interesting legal questions in the NIL … Read more
On January 19, 2026, in one of his final acts in office, Governor Murphy signed a law that fundamentally rewrites how New Jersey regulates electric bicycles. The compliance deadline arrived on July 19, 2026, which means the grace period is over and the new framework is fully operational. New Jersey is now the first state … Read more
New Jersey has enacted one of the most aggressive data broker statutes in the country, and it did so in seventy-two hours. Assembly Bill A5328 was introduced on June 28, 2026, amended and passed by both houses on June 30 and signed by Governor Sherrill the same day as P.L.2026, c.25. For any business that buys, sells … 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
In two days the country turns 250, and marketers have noticed. Flags, eagles and “Made in America” banners are everywhere this summer, on packaging, product pages and paid social. The Federal Trade Commission has noticed too, and it has spent the spring reminding everyone that patriotism in advertising is a regulated activity. If your company … 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