2014—In State v. Gleason, the Kansas supreme court expressly acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court “has explained that its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence on capital sentencing...
We live in the Golden Age of the internet. The cost of internet connectivity is at a historic low, and the Trump administration is only continuing to auction off more government-controlled broadband access to the private sector. The Federal Communications Commission will soon vote on auctioning 160 megahertz of spectrum in the Upper C-Band next […]
I recently retired after decades on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including 10 years as chairman of my chemistry department. Like many scientists, I’ve spent my career on problems that don’t yield to slogans: building evidence, testing claims, revising conclusions. Universities work when that ethic governs campus life. But across the […]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently unveiled a map of the city’s “Immigrant Enclaves,” and the backlash was immediate. The map celebrated dozens of neighborhoods, from Little Palestine and Little Pakistan to Little Yemen and Koreatown, but it ignored iconic Italian, Irish, and Jewish communities that have long defined New York’s immigrant story. The omissions […]