Cabinet confirmation hearings began in Washington last week for several of President Trump’s picks for top jobs in government. While Marco Rubio passed the gauntlet, we’re still waiting on word of a scheduled hearing for Trump’s most…
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Johnson & Johnson’s ‘Texas Two Step’ Needs a Conclusion
One of the most followed corporate trials of the decade is drawing nearer to a close. Johnson & Johnson’s Red River Talc subsidiary in Texas filed a third time for bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas while a…
Plummeting Smoking Rates Mean a Paradigm Shift for Nicotine
In every gas station and convenience store, a new category of addictive products is flying off shelves. This new thorn in the side of public health advocates is tobacco nicotine pouches. These pouches are made…
Trial Lawyer Marketing Machine Needs a Reboot
If you ask most Americans when it’s time to call a lawyer, the answer is no mystery: after a law has been broken, you’re forced to do so. Just as we don’t ask doctors to…
EPA Could Drown Industries, Make Consumers Pay
Has air pollution improved in our lifetime? The narrative is that our atmosphere and air quality are more polluted than ever, requiring drastic economic and societal reform to clean it. But in the United States,…
After the FTX Fraud, It’s Time to Be Even More Bullish on Bitcoin and Crypto
When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried this week, it ended a nearly 2-month-long drama. Bankman-Fried’s unethical business setup between his hedge fund Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX…
The Sam Bankman-Fried Hold on the Trillion-Dollar Crypto Trade Leaves It Vulnerable
Throughout the cascading cryptocurrency collapses and bankruptcies this summer, one name rose to the top: Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF. The Bahamas-based American billionaire entrepreneur heads FTX, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange. This year,…
Harm Reduction Takes a U-Turn on Vaping
Public health officials and those with significant sway in setting health policy were joyous last month when the Food and Drug Administration denied the ability of Juul Labs to continue selling its vaping device. Handed down as…
Don’t Be Fooled by Those Who Want to Save You From Tech Monopolies
In the heyday of the net-neutrality fight last decade, tech activists and companies warned of a doom scenario without it: Internet toll lanes, blocking of data and slower speeds. If Washington didn’t reclassify internet service…
Potentials for Bitcoin in State Government
Our country is dealing with some of the highest inflation in a generation while COVID jitters and government restrictions shake the economy. But state and local policymakers are not powerless to protect their residents. There is always…