Nearly 16 years after it was made available to the public, bitcoin is poised for its biggest moments yet in 2025. Thanks to growing acceptance among regulators, businesspeople and political leaders, the cryptocurrency just reached a major milestone by topping...
A legal battle over a bill passed this year in California prohibiting political “deepfakes” in the leadup to an election revealed a significantly broader potential area of future artificial intelligence regulation. Well before the legislation was...
Several measures on state ballots last week pertained to industries SNCJ focuses on. Here’s a recap of that Election Day activity. Healthcare Voters in 10 states considered ballot measures dealing with abortion, making it one of the most prominent issues...
There’s a potential new front opening in the ongoing battle between states and the tech industry over minors’ access to social media, and it comes courtesy of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta. For the past couple of years states have been...
There may not be a more a divisive issue in the ongoing culture war than the fight over gender-affirming care, which encompasses a range of behavioral, psychological, social and medical interventions, including hormone treatment and surgery, intended to support...
In recent years, the boardroom has become a new front in the culture wars alongside a cacophony of three-letter acronyms. DEI, ESG and CSR. These buzzwords—short for diversity, equity and inclusion; environmental, social and governance; and corporate social...
From Concord, New Hampshire to Sacramento, California and the overwhelming majority of state capitols in between, artificial intelligence has been one of the hottest topics in state legislatures this year. More than 650 bills referring to artificial intelligence...
If an autonomous vehicle hits another car or a pedestrian, who’s to blame? The manufacturer or software developer? Other parties like computer programmers, satellite mapping companies, or even state governments? Or perhaps the non-driving human occupants...
In at least parts of the country, unions are on the upswing. After last year’s hot labor summer , The New Yorker in April declared President Biden “ the most pro-labor president since F.D.R. ,” underscoring the rising strength of unions in America...
Data privacy, long a focus of state lawmakers across the country, is poised to enter a new space: your brain. Elon Musk has been making headlines for years now with his company Neuralink , which seeks to someday combine human consciousness with artificial intelligence...
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal law prohibiting state-authorized sports betting in May 2018 , it wasn’t just state legislatures that sprang into action. The fantasy sports behemoths DraftKings and FanDuel also mobilized to become sportsbooks...
Cities across the country have been setting heat records all summer long. Indeed, the three hottest days on record for the entire Earth were all set in July, according to the United Nations. “Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere...
A recent analysis by the website GoodRx found that the cost of prescription drugs in the United States has risen 37 percent over the past decade, outstripping inflation . Drug companies, insurers and the government often take the blame for these skyrocketing...
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re in the midst of an Ozempic boom . Exploding demand for the weight-loss drug has sent the value of its manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, to the moon and the buzz shows no signs of diminishing. Ozempic’s active ingredient...
In their seminal book on the American health care system, legendary investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele offered a disturbing metaphor for the illogical nature of medical pricing in 2004’s Critical Condition: How Health Care in America...