How a Country Gets Recognized: Law's Quietest Revolution
How new states get recognized: Montevideo criteria, the Kosovo and Palestine files, Security Council gates and the politics of statehood.
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Perplexity's answer to publishers: revenue share instead of lawsuits
Two models of AI publisher payment: OpenAI's flat-fee licenses versus Perplexity's revenue-share program
Industrial policy is now bipartisan default
US industrial policy after the 2026 ruling: the bipartisan toolkit, critiques, and what sets what comes next.
The Evidence Act, Seven Years On: Slow Progress, Real Infrastructure
The 2018 Evidence Act built real data infrastructure — chief data officers, learning agendas, inventories — while data quality and evaluation capacity lag.
Why Credit Lines Are Established Before You Need Them
Lenders ration credit exactly when applications rise — why the undrawn standby line is set up in strong quarters, and how to size and hold it.
The Pardon Power: Broad, Unreviewable and Full of Unwritten Rules
The presidential pardon power explained: Article II's limits, the Pardon Attorney process, commutation types and the unreviewability courts keep affirming.
How to Cover the Local Housing Market With Public Data Nobody Else Reads
Permits, assessments, deeds, and HUD datasets turn local housing coverage into numbers: a monthly routine a one-reporter desk can run with a spreadsheet.
How Critical Minerals Agreements Reshape Trade Blocs
-Japan template, the Minerals Security Partnership, IRA linkage, and producer countries' leverage.
The Retraining Pledges AI Left Behind
Tech companies pledged billions to reskill the AI-displaced. The documented record on what arrived, who benefited, and what works.
Arbitration Clauses Explained: FAA Rules, Forum Choice and Class Action Waivers
Arbitration clauses explained: FAA enforcement, drafting levers from rules to seat, class action waivers under Concepcion, and when courts refuse to enforce.
Fed Cuts Rates Half a Point, First Reduction Since 2020
00 percent on September 18, 2024, with one dissent. Here are the projections, the data, and what followed.
Steel tariffs sit at 50 percent a year on
Section 232 steel and aluminum duties have stood at 50 percent since June 4, 2025. What the rate did to prices, jobs, and mill utilization — and the expansion other coverage missed.
What a Government Shutdown Actually Funds — and What It Stops
A shutdown freezes discretionary spending while Social Security and Medicare continue under standing law. Here is what keeps running, what stops, and where both parties stand.
Boomerang hires are quietly becoming companies' best recruiting channel
5% of hires at large firms by 2023, per LinkedIn data. Why rehires are rising, which companies formalize them, and when they fail.
How SEC Investigations Move From Inquiry to Enforcement Action
The Securities and Exchange Commission builds cases in private, through a defined sequence of fact-gathering, staff review, and Commission authorization, before any charge becomes public.
Core CPI Climbed 2.5% in July, Excluding Food and Fuel
Core inflation strips out food and energy to track the underlying trend. Here is what it measures, how it differs from headline CPI, and why the Federal Reserve tracks a different index entirely.
The SBA's ESOP Loan Program Is Broken Again: A Citizenship Rule Is Why
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
The 90-Day Clock Behind US Foreign Deal Reviews
A statutory review-then-investigation timeline, not a blanket veto power, is what actually governs how Washington screens foreign investment — and CY2025 filings show where the scrutiny concentrates.
How NewsMatch Actually Multiplies Newsroom Donations
A look inside the mechanics of the annual matching-gift campaign that has become a core fundraising engine for nonprofit newsrooms.
How Automatic Recount Thresholds Vary From State to State
C. require a recount without a candidate asking for one, but the margin that triggers it, and who pays when it doesn't, differs by statute in every state that has one.
How the 6.75% Prime Rate Resets Your SBA Loan Cost
SBA 7(a) variable-rate loans are capped at the prime rate plus a size-based spread, and a 2026 rule change gave lenders new base rates to peg them to — here's how to read your own note.
Why State Unemployment Systems Can't Finish Modernizing
A decade of federal grants meant to retire decades-old jobless-benefits code ran into staffing gaps and contracting delays, then a 2025 funding cancellation forced states to rescale projects mid-build.
How the Labor Department recovers stolen wages, and how much workers get
Federal wage-theft enforcement hit a five-year high in 2025, but the recovery process, and its limits, are less understood than the headline number.
How antidumping duties actually get set
A single trade petition triggers two separate federal reviews, and only one of them decides the tariff rate.
Why platform transparency reports don't actually let you compare platforms
Meta, TikTok and YouTube each publish detailed content-moderation numbers, but their headline metrics measure different things, and no regulator currently requires a shared standard.
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