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Today, the NYU Democracy Project published my article “Strengthen Democracy by Empowering People to Vote with their Feet.” It is part of their “100 Ideas in 100 Days” series presenting a wide range of viewpoints on how to address challenges facing American democracy. Here are some excerpts: A specter is haunting American democracy: widespread voter […]

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This week, Stephen Colbert—host of CBS’ The Late Show—interviewed Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a candidate in the state’s Democratic Senate primary on March 3. But it didn’t air. As Colbert explained, CBS declined to broadcast the interview as a result of recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines relating to the equal-time rule. If anything, the […]

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Ready or not, AI is here. Even when you don’t know it. I recently bought a WiFi extender from XFinity. The $125 device was marketed as a way to extend the signal of my wireless network to the upstairs, where the connection sometime drops. I plugged it in, and followed all of the instructions, several […]

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Wall Street entered the latest session in a cautious mood. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq hovered near flat as investors weighed fresh concerns about AI-driven disruption alongside the release of Federal Reserve minutes. Recent coverage from Reuters and Yahoo Finance highlighted how sentiment has shifted from unbridled enthusiasm […]

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Executive Summary: The 9 Strategies at a Glance In the current high-interest rate environment of 2025 and 2026, the cost of capital has become the primary headwind for personal wealth accumulation. While the average consumer is forced to accept the “market rates” advertised on bank websites, a sophisticated tier of borrowers utilizes structural arbitrages to […]

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New York, New York, February 18th, 2026, FinanceWire Fastest-growing sports trading platform applies for DCM license to be available in all 50 states Novig operates a commission-free, peer-to-peer exchange designed for sports traders, utilizing an order-book model to provide market-driven odds  10X growth in trading volume in 2025  New funding accelerates product development: more markets, […]

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Panama City, Republic of Panama, February 18th, 2026, Chainwire Sai today launched Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform built to be as fast and intuitive as a centralized exchange with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, removing friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security. Sai also unveiled Let’s […]

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From a very long security clearance opinion released Jan. 30 by the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA), but just posted on Westlaw (note that the guidelines having to do with denying security clearances based on sexual behavior list as a mitigating factor that “the behavior occurred prior to or during adolescence and there […]

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Mamdani’s budget blues: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected on a promise of massively increasing city spending on affordable housing, fare-free transit, child care, and more. With less than two months into the job, he’s now scrambling to figure out how exactly he’ll pay for existing city services. Yesterday afternoon, Mamdani unveiled a […]

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Has the effort to end race-based admissions in higher education—a major goal of conservative and libertarian institutions for years—resulted in significant harms to mostly white applicants? That is the provocative claim of Helen Andrews in a new article for Compact magazine that seeks to undermine support for race-neutrality and meritocracy in American institutions. Andrews wields this claim […]

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