This fall, several states will vote to enshrine abortion access, while one asks voters to weigh in on the issue a second time.
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Posted inWorking in America
How America Let Its Workers’ Compensation System Fail
If you’re injured on the job these days, you’re simply out of luck.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How CEOs Use a ‘Neutral’ Legislature Group to Indoctrinate State Lawmakers
The National Conference of State Legislatures is a pay-to-play machine for business interests, critics say, not the disinterested policy organization it claims to be.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Live Tax-Free and Die
After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.
Posted inTechnology
The Unregulated AI Experiment on America’s Children
Some states have crafted consumer protection laws aimed at shielding kids from AI chatbots despite opposition from Big Tech.
Posted inSports
The Scourge of Online Sports Betting
States and leagues must face up to the damage from app-based gambling for the next generation of bettors, most of them young men.
Posted inBooks
‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
Posted inLaw and Justice
State and Local Contracts Prop Up For-Profit Prisons
CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Montanans Go After ‘Citizens United’
Montanans are putting forth an ingenious ballot measure that, while it wouldn’t legally overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations to buy elections, would negate its consequences nonetheless.