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2026 Church, State & Society Writing Competition for Law Students and Law Clerks

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Was Elizabeth Bathory aka “the Blood Countess” a torturer of young maidens or a victim of a disinformation campaign?

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The Perils of Premature Automation

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The Brain Science Behind the Munchies

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Lawmakers spend big on home state science projects

Penn State Basketball Player vs. Head Coach Defamation Lawsuit Can Go Forward (but Not as to the Disrespectful "Bro")

California Billionaires Are Leaving the State in Response to Proposed Wealth Tax

Don’t assume that women’s low retraction rates reflect male ‘boldness’

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David Rieff, Doritos, and the intellectual deformations of social media. “I don’t exactly think better of myself for all the time I spend on Twitter”

State Sales Taxes Just Keep Climbing

Andor Creator Tony Gilroy on Bureaucracy and the Surveillance State

'Pregnant? Don't Want To Be?' Ads at South Dakota Gas Stations Spark First Amendment Battle

Americans Don’t Seem to Enjoy Negotiating