Across the country, local county courts face high storage costs and aging systems. To solve this, many local governments are moving their records to private, out-of-state cloud networks. The North Carolina Judicial Branch recently shifted its entire statewide court system to the cloud. While this is sold to taxpayers as a simple efficiency upgrade, it […]
September marks Deaf Awareness Month — and the final two-month sprint toward the 2026 midterm elections. Politicians should connect the two. In most campaigns, they could not be further apart. Affordability is now the magic ticket in American politics. Candidates promise cheaper housing, healthcare, groceries, childcare, and energy. Listen long enough, however, and one group […]
The question asked isn’t just about a possible end to a life, but whether or not life is worth continuing. Hamlet, in the soliloquy, wrestles with the question of existence and uncertainty. Which is something we all must do. Which naturally brings us to baseball. The familiar phrase “the tie goes to the runner” has […]
American voters — and their elected leaders — are fed up with the cost of prescription drugs. And they’re looking for someone to blame. That blame ought to fall squarely on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers, which are siphoning off a growing share of total drug spending. Inflation-adjusted net drug prices — the average […]
1972—In Abele v. Markle, a divided three-judge district court rules that Connecticut’s recently re-enacted abortion law is unconstitutional. Judge Jon O. Newman’s majority opinion is...
Now that a significant portion of America’s high school graduates are enrolled in college for the first time, it may be worth reviewing whether that’s a good thing. Many of these students think they are making a meaningful investment in their future. As they see it, as many of their parents do, a college degree […]
Politics can bring out the worst in us, and when it comes to college sports, it has brought the worst out in Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT). “Look at the massive crowd behind them and tell me with a straight face that college sports are in ‘absolute chaos,’” Murphy posted in response to former Alabama Crimson […]
Accurately describe what the Left’s culture warriors do with government power, and you’ll sound like a conspiracy theorist. Public schools in blue states are — according to some parents, at least — convincing girls that they are boys, and if the parents object, the state will take away custody. State law in multiple blue states […]
Two seemingly unrelated stories have recently taken Washington by storm. First, Democrats marched in lockstep behind the leaders of the nation’s frontier AI labs, who called for Washington to regulate the industry and slow down development. This campaign was kick-started when Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned from the company and […]
