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Gun deaths are on the rise in the United States, recently reaching levels not seen since the 1970s. Fake news is spreading like wildfire across social media, damaging reputations and confusing voters.
For twenty-six days in 2020, all students in Ohio, Ken-tucky, Tennessee, and Michigan could claim a fundamental right to a “basic minimum education” under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Pueblo of Pojoaque is a Native American tribe in northern New Mexico. Its reservation has a population of 2,712, and, like many tribes, the Pueblo of Pojoaque operates multiple casinos and resorts.
In 2020, the U.S. federal government carried out ten exe-cutions, more than in any year since 1896. In a single week in January 2021, it carried out three more.
In the fall of 2017, the world’s largest social network put hundreds of women in “Facebook jail,” indefinitely suspending their accounts for posting “men are scum.”
On April 12, 2018, two wholesale office supply companies, Genuine Parts Corporation (GPC) and Essendant, Inc., agreed to combine their office supply businesses in order to better compete against e-commerce sellers, such as Amazon.com, Inc.
A decade ago we proposed the use of the tools of corpus linguistics in the interpretation of legal language.
When the past is thought to predict the future, it is unsurprising that machine learning, with access to large data sets, wins prediction contests when competing against an individual, including a judge. Just as computers predict next week’s weather better than any human working alone, at least one study shows that machine learning can make better decisions than can judges when deciding whether or not to grant bail.