Category: Feature
What Cornell’s College Radios Can Tell Us About the First Amendment
(source) First Amendment and FCC Regulations The First Amendment grants all Americans their protected freedoms of expression, be it through religion, speech, press, assembly or petition. However, some of that protection is limited, especially through broadcast. The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) regulates content broadcasted through radio and television. While the FCC and First Amendment rights…
Mar 2026
Strategic Minerals and the Global Commons: United States Deep Seabed Mining in an Era of Evolving Ocean Governance
(source) Deep seabed mining has emerged as one of the most legally contested and strategically consequential resource issues facing the United States today. As global demand for critical minerals accelerates amid the energy transition, renewable energy development, and intensifying geopolitical competition, the seabed has become a high-stakes frontier. States now seek to secure supply chains,…
Mar 2026
Caught Between Governments: New York’s Response to Shifting Federal Vaccine Guidance
(Source) Federal Retrenchment and State Resistance Recent federal changes to childhood vaccination guidance have produced one of the sharpest modern divergences between national public-health recommendations and state-level regulatory authority. In January 2026, federal health officials dramatically reduced the number of vaccines recommended for routine pediatric use, cutting the schedule from seventeen immunizations to eleven and…
Mar 2026
Slashing Spending and Survivability: Disabled Lives on the Line Post-One Big Beautiful Bill
(Source) In July 2025, Congress enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a sweeping budget reconciliation law that, among many provisions, slashes federal Medicaid funding by roughly $1 trillion over the next decade. Lawmakers allegedly added these cuts to help offset the cost of trillions of dollars in tax reductions included in the same…
Feb 2026
Now You See Me: Bringing Down the Brightness of LED Headlights
(Source) While the days of manually winding clocks twice a year are largely behind us, the setback to standard time still makes itself known by disrupting routines and setting the sun unreasonably early. Overlapping with the evening commute, diminished daylight comprises visibility and increases the danger for drivers and pedestrians alike. Impacting accident trends is…
Jan 2026
NBA Sports Betting and Gambling Getting Out of Hand
(Source) At the beginning of the 2025-2026 NBA season, a sports betting and illegal gambling scandal broke out. On October 23, 2025, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was arrested, along with six other defendants, for his alleged role in an illegal sports betting scheme; while with the Charlotte Hornets in 2023, he informed others that…
Jan 2026
Counting the Cost: Without PBS, Kids Stop at 1-2-3
(Source) Public broadcasting in the United States was created with the intent to be America’s media lifeline for all, with a particular emphasis on serving children and underserved communities. In 1967, the Public Broadcasting Act charged the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to produce “programs of high quality, diversity, creativity, excellence, and innovation” and, critically,…
Jan 2026
TikTok, PAFACA, and the New National Security Playbook
(Source) TikTok is a defining part of modern American culture, particularly among younger Americans, with 170 million domestic users on the app. Yet, TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, has received heavy scrutiny from U.S. regulators and officials who are concerned that the Chinese government could steal access to American users’ data or manipulate the platform’s algorithms…
Jan 2026
Offshore Wind Under Siege: Policy, Litigation, and the Cost of Federal Cancellations
(Source) Introduction By halting clean-energy projects, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, and reviving fossil-fuel expansion, the Trump Administration has departed from prevailing international climate-policy trends. These actions raise profound legal questions about executive power while exposing the human and economic costs of job losses and disrupted investment reliance across the renewable energy sector. Nowhere are…
Dec 2025
Google’s Antitrust Paradox: Can Modern Antitrust Principles Fix Google Search?
(Source) One of the greatest technological marvels of the 21st century was the fact that anyone could find a reliable answer to any question simply by typing a few words into a device that could be carried in their pocket. However, Google’s monopolization of internet search results may cause this era to come to an…
Dec 2025