Reason I was invited to participate in Penn’s first Law & Innovation symposium and wrote a piece entitled “Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law“as part of it. Here is the …
On YouTube, “viewership of far-right videos peaked in 2017,” according to Penn State political scientists Kevin Munger and Joseph Phillips, who have been studying YouTube politics and the spread of …
I know that parallels between Watergate and the Ukraine scandal can sometimes stretch pretty thin; I am, for instance, still waiting for someone to step forward to play Alexander Butterfield’s …
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A major conflict is now underway on the U.S. Supreme Court between Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch over the issue of judicial deference to the administrative state. Their division …
A British army sergeant has been demoted and sentenced to six months detention after pleading guilty to punching, slapping, elbowing and twisting the nipples of subordinates. Liam Cruise-Taylor was a lance …
It’s open season on wealth and those who create it. Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), for instance, say that “Billionaires should not exist” and …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. The hearing was supposed to be about his planned cryptocurrency, Libra, but the proceedings frequently felt like …
Facebook is the latest tech company to try to fix California’s housing woes. On Tuesday, the social media giant announced that it would invest $1 billion to spur the construction …
Although prescription pain medication is commonly blamed for the “opioid epidemic,” such drugs play a small and shrinking role in deaths involving this category of psychoactive substances. A recent study …