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Dec 6, 2024 | 
livemint.com | David Simon
How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest History of Economics"; Old Street; £14.99 There is no shortage of books on the history of money, for the straightforward reason that publishing them reliably convinces readers to part with theirs. And no wonder. Money is a central part of everyday life, as well as being a route to power or ruin.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
cbr.com | Michael Crichton |David Simon |George Martin |Alexander Martin
Game Of Thrones Sign in to your CBR account The nature of television is that the best shows are often the ones that last a long time, giving audiences nearly hundreds of hours of content to enjoy. With the breadth of content that television series can have, it means some of the best television series of all time can often have disappointing episodes or even disappointing seasons. But even the most disappointing seasons of great series can have captivating episodes, reminding audiences that,...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cbr.com | David Simon |Martin Carr
the wire Published 13 minutes ago Sign in to your CBR account The Wire hit televisions across America on Sunday, June 2, 2002. This landmark series by HBO would launch the careers of Idris Elba, Dominic West, and a young Michael B. Jordan. Over the next six years and across four more seasons, The Wire went on to become one of the most memorable police procedurals in history. Introducing audiences to the occupants of Baltimore PD, starting with Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty, before moving...
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
postandcourier.com | Andrew DeMillo |David Simon
JOHN LEWIS: A Life. By David Greenberg. Simon & Schuster. 704 pages. $35. In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after Republicans scored a landslide victory in the 1994 election. A staffer hoped Lewis would buoy her spirits and tell her there was a silver lining.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Susanne Werry |William Ridgway |David Simon |Nicola Kerr-Shaw |Kata Viktoria Eles
Executive Summary The deadline for EU countries to transpose the expanded cybersecurity directive, NIS 2, into national law is 17 October 2024, but the implementation status varies significantly from country to country. Some of the member states will miss the deadline. In others, the new regulation is expected shortly. NIS 2 significantly expands the scope of NIS 1 and revises how companies are classified.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Ken Kumayama |Stuart D. Levi |William Ridgway |David Simon |Nicola Kerr-Shaw |Susanne Werry | +1 more
Key PointsAs AI systems become more complex, companies are increasingly exposed to reputational, financial and legal risks from developing and deploying AI systems that do not function as intended or that yield problematic outcomes. The risks of AI, and the legal and regulatory obligations, differ across industries, and depend on whether the company is the developer of an AI system or an entity that deploys it.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | David Simon
The next president and Congress should repeal every aspect of the Biden administration’s climate change legislative and regulatory program. It is economically destructive, damages national security, and at most will have a barely detectable impact on global temperatures. It should never have been pursued, moreover, because strong scientific data show that neither global warming nor the increased emission of carbon dioxide causes harm.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
almendron.com | David Simon
With the world’s gaze directed elsewhere, the specter of genocide again looms over the Darfur region in western Sudan. The city of El Fasher and its more than 2.5 million residents are in the crosshairs of the military faction known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which controls three of the four main roads leading into the city. Sudan’s government forces (SAF) and several local militias are barely holding on. The RSF has been laying siege to El Fasher for more than a month.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | David Simon
David Simon is director of Yale University’s Genocide Studies Program and a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. With the world’s gaze directed elsewhere, the specter of genocide again looms over the Darfur region in western Sudan. The city of El Fasher and its more than 2.5 million residents are in the crosshairs of the military faction known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which controls three of the four main roads leading into the city.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | David Simon
In 2022, Foley’s International Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations Team produced a set of interactive international compliance and risk-mitigation heat maps, designed to provide an at-a-glance resource for identifying countries around the world that pose potential issues for multinational companies that conduct business in, trade with, or source materials from them.
