An exceedingly rare event occurred on Wednesday — the Supreme Court upheld a federal gun regulation, with four of the Court’s Republicans in the majority. Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in Bondi v. VanDerStok is narrow, but it turns aside a challenge to a federal regulation targeting “ghost guns,” disassembled firearm kits that can easily be […]

The Supreme Court spent Wednesday morning giving very serious consideration to a case that no one should take seriously.  FCC v. Consumers’ Research asks the justices to revive a long-dead legal doctrine known as “nondelegation,” which places strict limits on Congress’s authority to delegate power to federal agencies, and essentially move that power over to […]

The state of a kitchen pantry, closet, or garage says a lot about a person. There are some who seem to have the innate ability to keep their spices alphabetized, their clothes separated by color and season, and power cords neatly wound all in one place. Then there are others with more junk drawers than […]

Less than a week after becoming vice president, JD Vance, only the second Catholic to hold the office, had a very public break with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Without evidence, the second-in-command accused the US Conference of Catholic Bishops of settling “illegal immigrants” in order to access federal funds. Though […]

Can you truly be friends with a chatbot?  If you find yourself asking that question, it’s probably too late. In a Reddit thread a year ago, one user wrote that AI friends are “wonderful and significantly better than real friends […] your AI friend would never break or betray you.” But there’s also the 14-year-old […]