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Bipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles
A House transportation bill introduced this week would require owners of electric cars to pay $130 to cover the cost of road repairs.
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Calls for ‘No Seed Oil’ Push Companies to Order Up Butter and Beef Tallow
Businesses are finding different (and more costly) ways to fry foods as shoppers demand alternatives to seed oils as part of the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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On Blind, Anxious Tech Workers Get the Lowdown on Layoffs
On the website Blind, professionals share advice — and gallows humor — anonymously. It is chronicling the curdling of tech optimism.
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Top Treasury Lawyer Resigns After Creation of ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
Brian Morrissey, the department’s general counsel, stepped down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.
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Unraveling the Science Behind Artistic Genius and Creative Flow
Have you ever found yourself lost in a painting, captivated by the way colors and shapes seem to dance across the canvas? Or maybe you’ve been swept away by the melody of a song, feeling each note resonate with something deep inside you. These experiences often leave us wondering: what is it that makes certain…
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The Last Human, the Ship That Loved Her, and the Universe That Asked Her to Be Better
A cinematic review of Haja Mo’s The Ring of Heaven By Kamsa Khan There are science-fiction novels that imagine the future as machinery. There are others that imagine it as empire, war, rebellion, technology, apocalypse, or escape. The Ring of Heaven imagines the future as a question of worthiness. Haja Mo’s novel opens not with a battle, not…
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AI: The Next Frontier of PE Deal Risk
Cybersecurity diligence was once treated as a specialized issue in private equity transactions; today, it’s part of the standard deal process. Buyers evaluate security controls, incident history, insurance coverage, vendor exposure, and data practices as a matter of course because operational failures in any of those areas can materially impact enterprise value….By: Mayer Brown
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AI: The Next Frontier of PE Deal Risk
Cybersecurity diligence was once treated as a specialized issue in private equity transactions; today, it’s part of the standard deal process. Buyers evaluate security controls, incident history, insurance coverage, vendor exposure, and data practices as a matter of course because operational failures in any of those areas can materially impact enterprise value….By: Mayer Brown

