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Michigan Appeals Court Weighs Charging Parents of School Shooter With Manslaughter
James and Jennifer Crumbley are being accused of negligent behavior despite the fact that school officials at the time reached many of the same judgments. → Read More
Conservatives at CPAC Criticize—and Misunderstand—Section 230
A senator, a state attorney general, and a former congressman excoriated the law while getting much of it wrong. → Read More
Copyright Is the Latest Battle in the War Over A.I.
The U.S. Copyright Office determined that images produced by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted, even though they are generated by user-written prompts. → Read More
Colorado Cop Kills a Man Who Accidentally Got Into the Wrong Car
Richard Wade's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Pueblo County and five sheriff's office officials over the shooting. → Read More
Public Schools Are Failing Students with Disabilities
A New York Times investigation accidentally makes the case for school choice by detailing how poorly public schools are serving vulnerable students. → Read More
Electric truck manufacturer featured in Super Bowl ad got $186 million in taxpayer subsidies
Stellantis, one of the largest automakers on the planet with billions in cash on hand, got a generous handout from the state of Indiana for choosing to build its battery manufacturing plant there. → Read More
Ranked Choice Voting Won at the Polls in 2022
On a ranked choice ballot, voters can rank every candidate in a given race. Over time, that could lead more voters to consider candidates outside the two parties. → Read More
Atlanta Charges Nonviolent 'Cop City' Protesters As Terrorists
Out of 19 suspects arrested on terrorism charges, at least nine are accused of nothing more serious than trespassing. → Read More
Robert Reich Is Wrong: 'Corporate Greed' Isn't To Blame for Egg Prices
The former labor secretary ignores the avian flu epidemic that devastated the supply of egg-laying hens. → Read More
Virginia Is Considering 4 Different School Choice Bills
At least four different bills are before the General Assembly that would empower parents to use education funds in ways they see fit. → Read More
Youngkin Nixes Virginia Ford Electric Vehicle Plant Over Anti-China Paranoia
The factory may have been a bad deal for Virginia, but tying the decision to Chinese aggression is the wrong move. → Read More
House Republicans Want a Vote On the FairTax. Is It Worth Supporting?
The Fair Tax Act, while unlikely to get past Democrats, represents the first serious challenge to the American tax code in recent memory. → Read More
Will We Get Private Flying Cars Before the Pentagon Manages To Get This New Jet Off the Ground?
A Swedish company will soon be delivering electric single-person aircraft that can take off and land vertically. The F-35B struggles with this despite billions in funding. → Read More
Cameras Should Stay in Place After the House Picks a Speaker
C-SPAN has shown House proceedings since 1979 but only what the House chooses to let it show. That needs to change. → Read More
Government Spending Billions To Expand Broadband but Can't Tell Who Needs It
The Federal Communications Commission uses broadband coverage maps that are so severely flawed, states started shelling out to make their own. → Read More
Review: The CIA Now Has a Podcast, 'The Langley Files'
The director worries that the public doesn't trust his spy agency. → Read More
Wealthy Connecticut Residents Received Millions in Federal Dollars After Hurricane Sandy
It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable. → Read More
A New FBI Building Would Cost Billions. Do We Even Need One?
Congress' end-of-the-year omnibus bill was delayed by arguments over where to build the new FBI facility. Is it even needed? → Read More
Georgia could be the next state to try ranked choice voting
After a bruising Georgia Senate loss, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is open to alternatives. → Read More
Indiana lawsuit accuses TikTok of fraud, calls the app a 'Chinese Trojan Horse'
The Hoosier State alleges that TikTok is a "Chinese Trojan Horse" funneling inappopriate content to teens. That's not how algorithms work. → Read More