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This piece was originally published on September 5, 2017. We hope you enjoy revisiting a PD favorite over the holiday weekend.

How did you spend this Labor Day weekend? If you joined friends and family at an end-of-summer barbecue and enjoyed a beer or two, you actually may not be far off from the origins of the holiday.

The first Labor Day celebratio...


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The technical economic issues and questions surrounding artificial intelligence are myriad. Perhaps the most fundamental set of issues, however, relates to the implications of AI for our work. If AI lives up to the most optimistic forecasts and does at least some of what the most enthusiastic analysts hope it will do, what impact will that have on the human condition here on ...


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Pope John Paul II once said: “the continuing success of American democracy depends on the degree to which each new generation … makes its own the moral truths on which the Founding Fathers staked the future of [the] Republic.” One of th...


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The constitutional debate over social media bans seems to be moving away from regulating speech and content toward scrutinizing product designs and their resulting harms. Once bans are viewed through that lens, federal and state legislatures in the United States take on a much broader constitutional authority to protect children in their “traditional social environment” onlin...


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Studies suggest that almost half of American young adults ages 18–29 have used a dating app. When millennials are included in this cohort, the slightly smaller percentage still encompasses more than a third of the population. In other words, well over half...


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