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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched public access to more than 1.2 million newly available records of historic U.S. Government publications, making it easier than ever to find documents published between 1895 and 1976. The records are now live in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and are available to the public …
Heatmap – A just-released MIT paper argues that the energy transition is still largely following the trajectory laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability. Authors: Janet Vertesi, danah boyd, Alex S Taylor, Benjamin ShestakofskyAuthors Info & Claims. FAccT ’26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Pages 2186 – 2205. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3806739. Published: 25 June 2026 “The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein …
Washington Post – no paywall: “Why the nation’s founding document is marred by stains, a mysterious handprint. The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of the America it helped create…Two and a half centuries ago, the newborn United States did not yet reflect the …
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds negative – and often overwhelmingly negative – views of U.S. President Donald Trump in regions around the globe. Across 36 nations polled, a median of 23% of adults express confidence in his leadership of world affairs. In many countries, confidence in Trump has slipped since last year. Overall …
Open Laws Foundation: Most legal-data projects scrape statutes and dump them into a convenient format. That throws away the structure: cross-references, temporal validity, the relationships between acts. And that structure is the part that actually makes legislation useful to machines. We do the opposite. Read the spec GitHub ↗︎ Stable identifier olf:it/legge/2019/123/art_3 A profile of …
Update – “President Donald Trump signed the Secure America Act, Republicans’ flagship immigration bill greenlighting $70 billion to fund federal immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of his term. The package to pay for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection passed out of Congress in the last week after months of debate …
CRS Report R47520. The Voting Rights Act: Historical Development and Policy Background, June 2, 2026. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most significant elections statutes ever enacted. The law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or language-minority status in registration and voting nationwide. The VRA also provides protections for blind, disabled, or …
Employees’ Religious Objection to Using AI at Work: “Pope Leo XIV’s lengthy encyclical on AI sparked a larger public debate on AI regulation. But it also raised a fundamental question about what role religion and religious views should play in this debate — and in the use of AI generally. We are beginning to see …
Below the Beltway – “Internal communications from the Department of Justice reveal that the decision to close the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein was made after a narrowly focused review of less than 7% of the case files, centered entirely on photo and video evidence. FBI Director Kash Patel tasked agents in March 2025 to “determine …
404 Media [no paywall]: “No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them. Opposition to the massive data centers that power AI is bipartisan and growing across the country. From Maine to California, more states and local communities are passing moratoriums and bans on …
CRS Report – Data.gov: Implementation and Perspectives on Its Functions. P.L.115-435 Publication Date: 05/21/2026. “…The OPEN Government Data Act defines data as “recorded information” and data asset as “a collection of data elements or data sets that may be grouped together.” However, OMB’s definition from implementation guidance in Memorandum M-25-05 interpreted the act’s definition of …
