Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Google employee with insider trading on Polymarket. In a seven-page complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York (SNDY), the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, a software engineer at Google, exploited his access to confidential, nonpublic data on Google’s “Year in...
New Year‘s Day inspires hope with the promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five identifiable goals that we hope will be achieved in 2025. They can all be plausibly accomplished, and by setting them out as priorities now, we can help make them all a reality. 1. An end to […]
The case offers the justices chance to revisit a widely criticized decision that trampled property rights by letting government officials reassign private land to politically favored...
I walked into James Mangold’s new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, which adapts Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!, with low expectations, largely because it seemed unthinkable that any film could do justice to Dylan’s towering legacy. But to my surprise, it quickly became not only one of my favorite films of the year but one of […]
Amid all the reminiscences this week about former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, surprisingly little attention has focused on just how brilliant a campaign he ran to secure the Democratic nomination in 1976. When the campaign began, Carter was the longest of long shots. He entered a crowded field […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has no doubt had a turbulent year as the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, but any effort to replace him with someone else will not create smoother sailing. President-elect Donald Trump made clear that any effort to replace Johnson as House speaker lacks his support. […]
