Legislation

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How Insider Trading Law Works—and Why It's Expanding Economy

How Insider Trading Law Works—and Why It's Expanding

Insider trading law prohibits buying or selling securities based on material nonpublic information. Originally targeting corporate insiders, the legal...

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How Prediction Markets Work—and Why They're Controversial Economy

How Prediction Markets Work—and Why They're Controversial

Prediction markets let traders bet real money on future events, from elections to economic data. Here's how they work, who regulates them, and why the...

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How the NFL Draft Works—From Pick Order to Trades Sport

How the NFL Draft Works—From Pick Order to Trades

The NFL Draft is a three-day, seven-round selection process where teams pick college players in reverse order of their previous season's record, using...

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How the International Criminal Court Works Culture

How the International Criminal Court Works

The ICC is the world's only permanent court for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Here's how it investigates, prosecutes, and why enf...

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How Internet Shutdowns Work—and Why They Spread Technology

How Internet Shutdowns Work—and Why They Spread

Governments use BGP withdrawal, DNS blocking, throttling, and deep packet inspection to cut citizens off from the global internet. With 313 shutdowns...

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How Federal Mineral Withdrawals Work on Public Lands Economy

How Federal Mineral Withdrawals Work on Public Lands

Federal mineral withdrawals are the primary legal tool used to block mining on U.S. public lands. Here's how the process works, who holds the power, a...

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How the Congressional Review Act Works—and Why It Matters Economy

How the Congressional Review Act Works—and Why It Matters

The Congressional Review Act lets Congress overturn federal regulations with a simple majority vote, bypassing the filibuster. Once obscure, this 1996...

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How Airline Bankruptcy Works—and Why Some Survive Economy

How Airline Bankruptcy Works—and Why Some Survive

Airlines go bankrupt more than almost any other industry. Here's how Chapter 11 reorganization and Chapter 7 liquidation work, what happens to passeng...

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How AI Chatbot Liability Works—and Why Courts Are Split Technology

How AI Chatbot Liability Works—and Why Courts Are Split

As lawsuits mount against AI companies over chatbot-related harms, courts are grappling with whether chatbots are products, whether Section 230 protec...

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How WCAG Works—the Rules That Make the Web Accessible Technology

How WCAG Works—the Rules That Make the Web Accessible

WCAG, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, sets the global standard for making websites usable by people with disabilities. Here's how its princi...

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How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World Science

How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World

Earth Day began as a campus teach-in in 1970 and grew into the largest secular civic event on the planet, directly spawning the EPA and landmark envir...

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How the Presidential Records Act Works—and Why It Matters Economy

How the Presidential Records Act Works—and Why It Matters

The Presidential Records Act of 1978 transformed White House documents from private presidential property into public records. Here's how it works, wh...

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