Cigarette labels were bad. Social-media labels would be worse.
Stephen Mihm Last week, Vivek Murthy, surgeon general of the United States, warned that the use of social media among adolescents has contributed to a surge in anxiety... Read more.
Are the Ten Commandments the basis of our moral system?
Kenneth Seeskin The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The... Read more.
The Supreme Court just gave itself a lot more power
Noah Feldman The U.S. Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron decision, a basic building block of administrative law, thereby striking a blow against the power and... Read more.
Biden-Trump debate nears amid hopes to avoid another dumpster fire
Mark Z. Barabak In a little more than a week, Frank Fahrenkopf will be just another member of the TV audience watching as Joe Biden and Donald Trump tangle in this... Read more.
Only Clarence Thomas is willing to give a gun to a domestic abuser
Noah Feldman Gun rights are not unlimited according to an 8-1 Supreme Court decision that draws back from the extreme Second Amendment decision the court made two... Read more.
What will happen to generative AI after November’s election?
Mohammad Hosseini We’ve seen it play out time and again. Industries that lack sufficient government oversight prioritize short-term profits over long-term sustainability... Read more.
Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
F. Willis Johnson In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District... Read more.
Infrastructure requires money. More toll roads are the way.
Thomas Black Physical infrastructure — highways, bridges, ports, internet servers, potable water — provides the backbone of an economy, even in an increasingly... Read more.
Will voters get the message that our judicial system is on the 2024 ballot too?
Jackie Calmes Democrats will be lucky to keep control of the U.S. Senate after November’s elections. Yet Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. lately has shown... Read more.
AI and privacy rules meant for Big Tech could hurt small businesses most
Jennifer Huddleston As lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. consider policy born of their Big Tech concerns such as data privacy and artificial intelligence, they... Read more.