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$345 million legal bill in Tesla case shows need for tort reform

How do you turn nine shares of Tesla stock into $345 million? Just add lawyers. That’s the reaction of many business leaders and Tesla shareholders in response to a Delaware judge’s ruling that threw out the company’s compensation package for CEO Elon Musk. The judge orders the ...

Americans are ready for a shift back to justice and safety

The 2024 election delivered a clear and resounding message: Americans demand public safety be restored and criminals be held accountable. In addition to Republicans sweeping Congress, reclaiming the presidency and holding the state legislative majorities, voters approved critical criminal ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: Nuts! To the Germans

Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was in a tough spot 80 years ago this month. The handful of American soldiers he commanded were ordered to hold a small but critical crossroads village in Belgium. With Christmas just days off, many of his men were homesick. The Lowlands were being blasted by the ...

Bureaucracy keeps rail safety tech sidelined

Recent news that General Motors is abandoning its $10 billion self-driving taxi initiative reminds us that some technological breakthroughs are still beyond our grasp. The freight rail industry faces the opposite problem: Tech can do more to save money and lives, but regulators have been ...

Trump charts a new climate course

The pall that descended on the latest U.N. climate confab in the wake of Donald Trump’s election was justified. It’s a foretaste of things under an administration determined to part company with global environmentalists. Along with issuing the obligatory proclamations of impending ...

‘Missing Link’ offers unique boost to renewable energy generation

In a well-ordered laboratory in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore, an engineer has been perfecting a device that might be called the missing link in renewable energy. Now, it is ready to begin its transformative role in electric generation, bringing electricity to the remotest places in ...