09/30/2026 — by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker — Over the last few weeks, the people building the most advanced technology in human history are telling us there is danger if we don’t slow down. This is not coming from the critics or regulators of artificial intelligence (AI). This plea is coming from the builders. Anthropic employees are quitting and whistleblowing. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis, competitors who agree on almost nothing, are sounding the alarm. When the people closest to this technology say that time is running out, elected leaders cannot look the other way.

09/07/2026 — People are watching enormous data centers being proposed and built in their communities. They hear about the tremendous amounts of electricity required to operate them. They worry about water consumption, noise, land use, environmental effects and the possibility that ordinary consumers could end up paying higher utility bills to provide the infrastructure these facilities require.

09/02/2026 - The First Amendment to the United States Constitution says that government shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or of the press. The principle is straightforward: the government does not get to decide which stories the American people are permitted to hear simply because government officials do not like those stories.

08/27/2026 - Voting is one of those things we can easily take for granted. We register, receive a ballot, make our choices, and expect our vote to be counted. But behind that simple act is a remarkably complicated system of constitutional protections, laws, courts, election officials, and divisions of governmental authority.