Legislation

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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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How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives Science

How the Clean Air Act Works—and Why It Saves Lives

The Clean Air Act is one of the most consequential environmental laws ever written, preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and cutting m...

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How Economic Sanctions Work—and Do They? Economy

How Economic Sanctions Work—and Do They?

Economic sanctions have become the world's go-to tool for punishing rogue states and pressuring policy change, yet research shows they succeed only ab...

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What Is Actual Malice—and Why It Protects the Press Economy

What Is Actual Malice—and Why It Protects the Press

The actual malice standard, born from a 1964 Supreme Court ruling, sets a deliberately high bar for public officials and public figures who sue the me...

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How the Federal Reserve Chair Is Chosen—and Why It Matters Economy

How the Federal Reserve Chair Is Chosen—and Why It Matters

The Federal Reserve chair is the most powerful economic policy position in the U.S. government. Here's how the nomination and confirmation process wor...

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