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View More NewsToday Chief Justice Roberts spoke at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston. No, I did not attend. In candor, members of the Baker Institute Roundtable (a $500 fee) had early access to public tickets, and once those were gone, the event was at capacity. That was too rich for me. I considered protesting outside the building with a “#RESIGN” sign, but decided against it. The conversation was moderated by Judge Lee Rosenthal of the Southern District of Texas. She did an expert job moderating the conversation. Most of the press focused on Roberts’s comments concerning attacks on judges:…
Vietnamese firms are racing to secure licences for the country’s first domestic cryptocurrency exchanges as Hanoi moves to restrict trading on foreign platforms.A government resolution issued in February calls for a pilot program for locally run digital asset exchanges, with a rollout possible as soon as March.A March 12 Finance Ministry document showed that five companies cleared an initial screening round, Reuters reported. These include affiliates of three private banks in the country including Techcombank, VPBank and LPBank, along with VIX Securities and the Sun Group conglomerate.The move could reshape a market that has grown fast with little formal oversight.…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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In brief The CFTC’s Market Participants Division issued no-action relief to Phantom Technologies, letting it connect users to regulated futures markets without registering as…
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from the a-failure-at-any-level dept Look, I get it. Government waste is real. Bureaucratic bloat is real. The desire to have a federal government that…
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In brief XRP has jumped above BNB, becoming the fourth-largest crypto asset by market cap. The Ripple-linked token hit $1.60 late Monday, its highest…
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In brief World has introduced AgentKit, a developer toolkit that lets AI agents prove they represent a unique human. The system integrates World ID…