Legal
From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts
Video evidence can be read very differently, depending on the assumed or actual context. How can courts prevent misuse?
‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver
Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?
California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License
An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.
Plaintiffs in Kentucky Retirement System Pension Case Expose Flagrant Corruption in Hiring of Tainted Attorney Regina Calcaterra, Best Known for Sabotaging New York Anti-Corruption Commission
Kentucky Retirement Systems stooped low in cooking its hiring process to pick coverup artist Regina Calceterra to run an "investigation".
Abolish the OCC
The idea of getting rid of a hopelessly captured and largely redundant bank regulator, the OCC, is gaining support.
California Judiciary Committee Gives Blistering Assessment of CalPERS’ Fiduciary Duty Failings in Analysis of Fraud-Friendly Private Debt Secrecy Bill
The Judiciary Committee's analysis of a CalPERS-sponsored bill shows that Sacramento is noticing the fund's chicanery and incompetence.
CalPERS Employee Accused of Embezzling $685,000 from Beneficiary Bank and CalPERS Accounts Hasn’t Been Arrested, Much the Less Prosecuted. Why the Cover Up?
CalPERS has allowed an employee accused of massive embezzlement to go free for months rather than seek her arrest and prosecution. What is it hiding?
How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers
Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.
Privacy Champions Urge Passage of ‘Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale’ Act
Anti-Big-Tech sentiment has hit the point where it's not crazy to hope for some recovery of digital privacy.
Jury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty of Second Degree Murder, Third Degree Murder and Second Degree Manslaughter in George Floyd Trial
Jurors in the George Floyd trial found Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts: second degree nurder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter