I test-drove NotebookLM's podcast mode. Conclusion: Its conversational speech is excellent but its comprehension is flawed in a way that may reflect the overall limitations of LLMs (large language models) as a path to AGI (artificial general intelligence).
On the blog, I compare the charges against Eric Adams to those on which Robert Menendez was convicted and note the Trumpiness of Adams's defiant response. Then I make an endorsement for a successor: (Cornell Law School grad) Zellnor Myrie!!
In my latest column for Verdict, I explain why SCOTUS should grant the Solicitor General's cert petition and reverse a 5th Cir (of course) ruling that a key Obamacare body is unconstitutional.
Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf discusses a topic that came up in the recent debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, focusing on Trump’s remarks about healthcare and a legal challenge to ...
Professor Segall shows how decades of conservative mocking of Justice Douglas's penumbras and emanations in the Griswold case ring hollow in light of Trump immunity ruling and numerous other ways that conservatives read their own views into the Constitution.
Prof. Neil Buchanan laments that journalists who seem to think Trump or Vance grunting words about issues (e.g., "inflation!") count as "policy" also seem to think that bald-faced assertions are "arguments."
On the blog, I question the supposition that Trump will suffer guilt by association with NC gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, given that Trump doesn't seem to suffer (nearly enough) guilt by association with himself.
On the blog, I ask whether liberals should be upset or happy when right-wing politicians and activists divert funds intended for their awful projects to personal use.
Professor Neil Buchanan skewers the Republicans who claim to want Trump to "stick to policy," given that Trump mostly has no policies ("concepts of a plan"), and those he has are awful (mass deportation) and unpopular (guns everywhere).
The media have done a decent job of describing tariffs as taxes on U.S. purchaser but consistently fail to note the basic economic fact that there is a tradeoff between import tariffs as a source of revenue and tariffs' ability to shift demand for foreign goods to domestic products.
Professor Neil Buchanan describes the well-worn path from kernel of truth to distorted anecdote to viral right-wing conspiracy theory to Trump's outlandish lie, and thence to real-world harm perpetrated by his army of dupes and stooges.