Late Saturday, Washington D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law in firing Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Jackson’s decision is forceful, well-written, and arguably wrong under existing precedent. Indeed, it may have just set up an appeal that both presidents and professors have long…
EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Republicans are eyeing an additional fight over the state’s law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, hoping that the Trump administration will voice its support for the law after a defeat in an appeals court this week. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the findings of…
A February 2025 report by Palisades research shows that AI reasoning models lack a moral compass. They will cheat to achieve their goals. So-called Large Language Models (LLMs) will misrepresent the degree to which they’ve been aligned to social norms. None of this should be surprising. Twenty years ago Nick Bostrom posed a thought experiment in which an AI was asked to most efficiently produce paper clips. Given the mandate and the agency, it would eventually destroy all life to produce paper…
More than 50 school districts in Maine have policies that allow minors to hide their gender identity from their parents, according to a new watchdog report. Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization tracking gender ideologies in schools across the country, filed public records requests to confirm that at least 57 of the state’s 192…
Read Across America week starts on March 2nd. The week is dedicated to getting kids and adults to read. It takes place around the birth of the beloved author Dr. Seuss, with many schools and libraries hosting events that promote a variety of genres. To celebrate, get yourself some new books and a few reading…
Friday’s extraordinary Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off the rails, leaving hopes for a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in question. Here are some reasons why things went wrong, and where it leaves efforts to end the war. 1. Zelenskyy does…
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A man shared a bitter relationship conflict tied to a morning coffee routine — with over 13,000 people on social media reacting to it and more than 2,000 sharing their very direct comments and thoughts. Was he wrong, a man wondered in a social media post a few days ago, for “telling my girlfriend I…
Gene Hackman retired from his long and successful career over 20 years ago, partially forced by health concerns that had him worried for his wife and family. “I try to take care of myself. I don’t have a lot of fears,” Hackman told Larry King in 2004. “I have the normal fear of passing away…
An Indiana couple is accused of inflicting “nutritional” neglect on their 10-year-old son, zip-tying him and covering his head with a towel so he could not watch TV and telling his siblings to beat him up. Melody Rose Greenwood, 38, and Adam Jon Greenwood, 36, each face preliminary charges for neglect of a dependent. The…
