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Religious Employment and Title VII: Part 4—Avoiding Serious Constitutional Problems

Rejecting a textualist reading of Section 702 in favor of a cramped co-religionist privilege would raise serious First Amendment objections.

Reason · Jan 22

Paul Smith reworks his past at Milan menswear salon show

Fashion elder compères his own celebration of designs revived from his archive by design director Sam Cotton

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17

Thailand train crash latest: At least 31 dead after crane falls onto train going 120kmph ‘slicing it in half’

Train originating in Bangkok derails and catches fire with 195 passengers on board

The Independent UK · Jan 14

“Screams I Will Never Forget”: 77 Patients That Will Probably Stick With These Hospital Workers Forever

"I still to this day don't know how I turned up for work next day," a medical professional writes when asked about the worst thing he saw happen to a patient. Truly, medical workers are real heroes with how they're able to witness the worst of the worst and still…

Bored Panda · Dec 15, 2025

How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age

It’s week one of the semester, the first day of class: 20 students, mostly freshmen, sit silently waiting for our English 101 Writing Composition class to begin. Most have one AirPod in listening to whatever their Spotify AI DJ thinks they want to listen to; some scroll past AI-selected ads…

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2025

Luke Littler kicks off World Championship title defence with comfortable win

Littler created history in January when he became the youngest world champion, reigning supreme on the Alexandra Palace stage as a 17-year-old.

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025

The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction

Along with millions of others, I’ll soon be taking 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my busy holiday schedule to sit down and watch a movie I’ve seen countless times before: Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which tells the story of a man’s existential crisis one Christmas Eve…

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2025

The Partisanship of Justice Kagan's Abbott v. LULAC Dissent

In a SCOTUS first, Justice Kagan refers to "red and blue states" and implied that redistricting was a mark of "loyalty" to Trump.

Reason · Dec 5, 2025

“The SEs were going to go away. We were having trouble with sales”: Paul Reed Smith on the near-fateful end of the PRS SE Series – and what saved it from extinction

Smith reflects on the time the plug was almost pulled on the affordable branch of PRS guitars

Guitar World · Dec 5, 2025

London's firefighters have 'alarming' cancer risk due to contaminants from buildings and EVs

Instances of cancer amongst firefighters aged 35-39 are up to 323% higher than the general population

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2025