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The New York Times no paywall – “Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence over the last two years, the technology has demeaned or defamed opponents and, for the first time, officials and experts said, begun to have an impact on election results. Free and easy to use, A.I. tools have generated a flood of …
Bloomberg – no paywall: “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. As recently as last week, President Donald Trump and Noem said …
Open Access. The crisis in American science. Sage Journals. History of Science. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-2892, Volume 63, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753251343655 Abstract – “The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close …
Above the Law: But There Isn’t A Ton Of Good News For Biglaw Firms That Bent A Knee To Trump: Lots — and lots — of bad news though. These articles discuss partner and associate defections. One important note that may be slowing the rate of movement: “Cadwalader has seen a number (Opens in a …
Inside Higher Education: “Within days of taking office, the Trump administration began purging federal demographic data—on a wide range of topics, including public health, education and climate—from government websites to comply with the president’s bans on “gender ideology” and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Over the past five months, more than 3,000 taxpayer-funded data sets—many …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern. “Trump came into office promising to carry out a “mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants. Because of a degraded information environment riddled with right-wing propaganda, many Trump supporters came to think this meant …
“Few modern presidents have waged a more visible or sustained campaign against the press than Donald Trump. From the launch of his political career, Trump has used social platforms — first Twitter, then Truth Social — to attack, belittle and discredit journalists, news outlets and the media as a whole. To better understand the scope …
Lit Hub: “Only one library book ban case has ever been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico (1982). In 1975, the Island Trees school board in Nassau County, New York removed nearly a dozen books from the high school and junior high …
Wasington Post via MSN: “President Donald Trump is accelerating efforts to transform the nonpartisan, merit-based federal workforce into one that demands and rewards loyalty to the president, according to civil servants, public service experts and employment attorneys. The ongoing shift would ditch decades-old rules that were intended to ensure that federal hiring, retention and promotion …
“Founded in June 2020, dontcallthepolice.com is an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to calling the police or 911. We know that involving law enforcement in situations that they are not best equipped to handle can cause more harm than good. These harms disproportionately impact communities of color and the populations most in …
CRS Legal Sidebar: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is primarily responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States. ICE has considerable authority to arrest and detain aliens identified for removal. While DHS’s immigration enforcement priorities may change over time depending on the …
Reuters Institute – Digital News Report 2025. “The most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world. Against that background, evidence-based and analytical journalism should be thriving, with newspapers …
