You can learn a lot about people based on their legal questions, especially the queries that they probably wouldn’t ask anyone but Google. For example, you’ll discover that in Canada in the past year, folks have most wanted to know whether they can marry themselves, which raises some follow-up questions, like, “What the hell?!”
On Sunday, US president Donald Trump took 20 steps into North Korea, accompanied by the nation’s dictator Kim Jong Un. It was an historic moment, as no sitting US president had ever been in North Korea before. However, it was also additional evidence that Trump is the consummate reality TV star, more entertainer than diplomat, an orchestrator of seemingly spontaneous moments that make for a great show but are likely scripted and offer little in the way of substance.
If you’re an electricity supplier, investing in electric vehicles makes perfect sense. Trying to also manufacture and sell them, however, would take some courage, especially when there’s little demand for them in your home market.
Public defenders represent the indigent accused. Traditionally, they’ve seen themselves as freedom fighters, keeping people out of prison, not prospective prosecutors. Yet all over the US, lawyers are rising from the defense bar to lead the offense, ostensibly to transform a broken system from within.
The US Supreme Court today decided two cases (pdf) about partisan gerrymandering that the nation’s political buffs had awaited breathlessly. Consolidating the two matters out of Maryland and North Carolina, the majority determined that district rigging is a “nonjusticiable political question.”
For more on scientific efforts to fight aging, check out the ninth episode of our Should This Exist? podcast, which debates how emerging technologies will impact humanity.
The first night of the Democratic presidential candidates’ debates tonight (June 26) was a confusing affair. Ten candidates, who certainly look different from each other and used different words, seemed to all be saying more or less the same thing, each vying to be the voice of the underdog and representative of the forgotten. It wasn’t always easy to tell why some were yelling at each other.
Are you looking for a new political true love but unsure who deserves your heart and vote in the 2020 US presidential elections? Well, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) knows a bunch of people who want to woo you and has just the thing to help you choose.
Courtney Taylor Irby is anxiously waiting to hear from Polk County, Florida prosecutors. They are considering pursuing criminal charges against her for burglary and firearm grand theft. She was arrested on June 15, spent six nights in jail, and is now out on bond.
One of the largest slums in Asia just became the favorite tourist “experience” for travelers to India in 2019, beating out classic draws like the legendary Taj Mahal.
The US Supreme Court has just decided Iancu v. Brunetti (pdf), a First Amendment case about “immoral or scandalous” trademarks, ruling that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) violated an entrepreneur’s free-speech rights when it denied trademark registration for his clothing brand FUCT.
Ghost nets float throughout the world’s oceans. The abandoned fishing gear travels with the currents, trapping marine life along the way, polluting the waters and killing dolphins, sea turtles, and fish. Now a recent haul in the Pacific shows there may be an effective way to pick up this trash relatively rapidly.
Waste management is a dirty business, but a lucrative one that’s bound to grow as global garbage woes worsen. The worldwide market for trash-incinerating power plants that reduce pollution will be worth $80 billion by 2022, according to some financial analysts’ estimates. Japan, which has cultivated just this rubbish acumen, is hoping to cash in on the refuse boom.
About two years ago, US president Donald Trump entrusted his son-in-law and White House advisor, Jared Kushner, with one of the world’s most pernicious problems: achieving peace in the Middle East.
Yesterday US president Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that raids by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on undocumented immigrants—planned for this weekend in cities around the nation—will be delayed for two weeks. In what has become a typical tactic for the president, he threatened that the deportations will happen in two weeks if Democrats don’t agree “to work out Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.”
To allow or not to allow smartphones in schools, that is the question. Educators around the world are struggling with this issue as it becomes increasingly obvious that mobile devices, the most practical of distractions, are deeply entrenched in our postmodern lives and are not going away anytime soon. Earthquake-prone Japan is no exception.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a classic 1995 Japanese animated series that takes place in a future that is already our past, the year 2015. Yet it has never been more relevant.
The US Supreme Court reversed the quadruple murder conviction of Curtis Flowers today. Few individuals are as familiar with the legal process as Flowers has become since he was first arrested in 1996 for a crime in a Mississippi furniture store and tried six separate times for it. The case became famous nationally after the popular In the Dark podcast aired its investigation into the case, including racial discrimination in jury selection.
“The cross came into widespread use as a symbol of Christianity by the fourth century, and it retains that meaning today. But there are many contexts in which the symbol has also taken on a secular meaning. Indeed, there are instances in which its message is now almost entirely secular,” US Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito writes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association (pdf), decided today.
The Supreme Court is an extremely cordial and formal workplace. The justices have rules for almost everything they do, from who has to pick up a ringing phone when they’re meeting (the junior justice) to who assigns opinions (the chief) to when to shake hands and with whom (all of them, whenever they have a conference or hear oral arguments).
Of course your dog is good. All you have to do is look at its expressive canine face to know it. Now, a new scientific study suggests that as humans were domesticating dogs, the animals evolved certain facial muscles in order to generate precisely this adoration.
You probably don’t think about intellectual property laws when you go shopping or watch the World Cup or surf the web, if ever. Yet the stuff we covet is governed by rules that have developed over hundreds of years around the world, which dictate what is made and sold, how, and for how much money.
Jesus would probably not approve of the feud brewing in conservative Christian intellectual circles in the US.
Perfectly smart adults feel intimidated by numbers and aren’t ashamed to say, “I hate math.” Two new books could help change that by making the dreaded topic relevant and accessible to naturalists, artsy types, the philosophically inclined, and committed calculators alike.
