Facing Trump threats, Al Schmidt defended Pa.’s 2020 election as free, fair, and secure. He believes the same about 2024.

This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s collaboration with Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting. Sign up for Votebeat’s free newsletters here. After Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020, he used Twitter to direct his fury straight at Al Schmidt, then a Philadelphia city commissioner, prompting a deluge of threats. Photos of Schmidt’s…

The Original Joe Rogan

Insider Your all-access pass to FP The Original Joe Rogan Bob Grant and other talk radio hosts got out the Republican message through the ‘80s and ‘90s. December 20, 2024, 2:00 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. A photo illustration shows…

Ninth Circuit Gets It: Interoperability Isn’t an Automatic First Step to Liability

A federal appeals court just gave software developers, and users, an early holiday present, holding that software updates aren’t necessarily “derivative,” for purposes of copyright law, just because they are designed to interoperate the software they update. This sounds kind of obscure, so let’s cut through the legalese. Lots of developers build software designed to interoperate…