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Introduction In its 2024 decision overruling the decades-old Chevron[1] doctrine directing judges to accept an agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutory language,[2] the Supreme Court …
Introduction James Bradley Thayer may not be the best-known figure in the literature on constitutional interpretation, but his key ideas continue to attract attention and …
Introduction Since the nation’s founding, major political parties have clashed over the rules that govern our elections.[1] The intensity of these conflicts has fluctuated, with …
Introduction Traffic lights today are not just signals—they are sensors, too. “Smart” infrastructure is quickly but quietly lining public roads. Forty percent of American intersections …
Introduction American consumers are racking up credit card debt like never before.[1] Despite “rising wages and a low unemployment rate,” delinquencies are on the rise[2] …
Introduction In cities across America, Real-Time Crime Centers monitor the streets.[1] Surveillance cameras feed video monitors, sensors alert to unusual activities, automated license plate readers …
Introduction Guns play a variety of roles in American life—as tools of crime and self-defense, political symbols, markers of individual identity, instruments of recreation, and …
Introduction The first few scenes of the Trump presidency sequel have been action-packed. The White House’s news-getting activity has triggered similarly newsworthy happenings in the …
Introduction In The Signal and the Noise, a manifesto for our cognitively dissonant post-fact, pro-statistics era, Nate Silver writes: “Data-driven predictions can succeed—and they can …
Introduction In the twenty-first-century United States, patents—government grants of exclusive rights to the originator of a new and useful invention—are part of the politics of …
Introduction Liberal democracy cannot survive without a vibrant, free, and pluralist press. The venerable Fourth Estate has long served to hold the powerful to account, …
[Introduction] The retirement of trademarks such as “Uncle Ben” and “Aunt Jemima” during the fulcrum of the Black Lives Matter movement prompted scholars to reconsider …
