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View More NewsCongress keeps coming up with creative end-runs around the constitutional right to boycott. In 2017 and 2018, members of Congress from both parties unsuccessfully pushed a bill that would use export control laws to make encouraging boycotts of Israel punishable by 20 years in prison. Last year, a bipartisan coalition tried to ban “furnishing information” to an international boycott movement against Israel, only to postpone the vote due to opposition from the libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) and other Republicans. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, sponsored by Reps. Virginia Foxx (R–N.C.)…
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Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers was first screened at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 1966. I saw it several months after it was released in North America in September 1967 while I was an undergraduate at York University in Toronto. The political and cultural turmoil of the late 1960s was in full swing, and the film made a deep impression on my friends and me. We immediately understood that this was a seminal piece of cinema—a compelling work of art about a compelling historical event—and it quickly became an iconic exploration of the revolutionary anticolonialism that…
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Kraken is joining SoFi’s settlement network and list SoFiUSD as the companies link traditional banking with crypto markets. Read the full article here
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to share and deploy AI…
In brief The moratorium covers students from 2-K through eighth grade and takes effect in the 2026-27 school year. Companion chatbots are barred in…
VALLETTA, September 3, 2026—Almost nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a car bomb, Malta has still not convicted the…
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The Senate Banking Committee will meet on Thursday, May 14, to consider the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, putting the crypto market…
Passing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, also known as CLARITY, will help to reshore the crypto industry in the United States,…
From Thursday’s decision by Judge Nina Wang (D. Colo.) in Coomer v. Lindell: This is a defamation case brought by Plaintiff Eric Coomer (“Plaintiff”…
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) reported a $405.9 million first-quarter net loss on $871,200 in revenue, widening from $31.7 million a year earlier…
Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed restriction on citizens’ access…
In brief New South Wales Police seized 52.3 Bitcoin worth about $4.2 million USD during raids in Ingleburn on May 4. A 39-year-old man…
The Dissident Right is furious after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told Reason and several other outlets that America is a “creedal nation.” “The…