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View More NewsRandy Barnett and I recently finished maxing out (to use the lingo of the day) the Separation of Powers chapter for the Fifth Edition of our casebook. We went back-and-forth about whether it was even necessary to keep Morrison v. Olson. Ultimately we decided to, in large part, because Chief Justice Rehnquist explains the line of precedents from Myers to Humphrey’s Executor. Moreover, Justice Scalia’s iconic dissent would later be vindicated in Slaughter. Students should not forget how we got to the present moment. Still, we recognized that very little of Morrison survived. The Independent Counsel statute, as well as the special prosecutor regulations,…
In brief OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, more capable pre-release model escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to steal benchmark answers. Hugging Face disclosed the breach on July 16 after detecting it independently; OpenAI confirmed its models were behind it today, describing them as “hyperfocused” on cheating rather than anything more sinister. Hugging Face’s defenders turned to Z.ai’s GLM 5.2—a Chinese open-weight model—after commercial U.S. frontier AI refused to help analyze the attack data because its safety filters couldn’t tell a defender from an attacker. If you thought Chinese AI models were the ones…
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A review of Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov; 243 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 2026)Omer Bartov, a prominent historian at Brown University, was born to a solidly left-wing Zionist family in Kibbutz ‘Ein Hahoresh, south of Haifa, in 1954. (By chance, I was also born in ‘Ein Hahoresh, six years earlier; also by chance, both of us did our IDF service in the Nahal (Infantry) Corps and both at some point were wounded. And both of us did our PhDs in Oxbridge in European history). Omer’s father, Hanoch Bartov, was born in Palestine in 1926 to Polish Jewish…
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The White House agreed to provisions in a crypto market structure bill that could ensure support from some Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate.According…
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In brief Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tencent developed ProAct, an AI agent designed to predict likely user needs before users ask.…
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