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'What goes around comes around': Expert says Trump's own judges have hindered his agenda
4 weeks ago

'What goes around comes around': Expert says Trump's own judges have hindered his agenda

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has expressed grand designs of ruling like an autocrat in his second term but, to some extent, he also wants to follow policies more typical of a Republican administration — namely deregulation of the environment, labor and commerce for favored industries. But there's a potential obstacle to Trump getting his way on this in the courts, wrote former …

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Remembering former former Solicitor-General Ted Olson
1 month, 1 week ago

Remembering former former Solicitor-General Ted Olson

NPR  

Remembering former former Solicitor-General Ted Olson NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Harvard professor Cass Sunstein about Ted Olson. He's the Robert Walmsley University professor at Harvard and lauded Ted Olson on X this week as the model of integrity and kindness and decency. SIMON: Cass Sunstein, what might people on all sides of a question learn from Ted Olson's life …

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Column: With its ‘Chevron’ ruling, the Supreme Court claims to be smarter than scientific experts
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: With its ‘Chevron’ ruling, the Supreme Court claims to be smarter than scientific experts

LA Times  

Second only to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday on when presidents are immune from criminal prosecution, the biggest case of the court’s recently completed session involved the age-old conflict between judges and government regulators. The ruling stated that when a federal law was ambiguous or silent on a particular issue, judges were bound to defer to the interpretation offered by …

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There's not an easy answer for 'How To Become Famous'
6 months, 3 weeks ago

There's not an easy answer for 'How To Become Famous'

NPR  

There's not an easy answer for 'How To Become Famous' NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with behavioral economist Cass Sunstein about his latest book, “How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be.” ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Why is the "Mona Lisa" the most famous painting in the world? It's called "How To Become Famous: Lost …

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The legacy of ‘Moneyball’: objective metrics and statistical analyses
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The legacy of ‘Moneyball’: objective metrics and statistical analyses

The Hindu  

Michael Lewis’s ground-breaking 2003 book Moneyball, which was later adapted into a Brad Pitt-starrer movie in Hollywood, is one of the significant publications that defined the first quarter of the twenty-first century. “It didn’t take me long to figure out that, in a not so roundabout way, Kahneman and Tversky had made my baseball story possible,” Lewis subsequently wrote in …

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