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When You’re an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly — But You Didn’t Know It The platform offers users AI-generated feedback under the names of scholars by drawing on their accessible publications. Some academics are unsettled.

in 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that the 19th Amendment, which was certified two years earlier, was constitutional in a unanimous decision.

The decision was the result of the Leser v. Garnett case, in which Baltimore lawyer Oscar Leser sued to strike all women from Maryland's voting rolls on the grounds that the 19th Amendment infringed on state sovereignty, since the Constitution of Maryland only granted suffrage to men. The Maryland state legislature had previously refused to ratify the 19th (and would not certify it until 1958), causing Leser and his fellow petitioners to raise questions about whether women's right to vote was truly part of the federal Constitution.

Nevertheless, all judges agreed to dismiss the case, as the 19th achieved the required three-fourths majority of state ratification, and the newly-minted voters who spent nearly a century fighting for suffrage could continue to celebrate their hard-won right.

He Vibe-Coded a Crisis for Higher Education Advait Paliwal set out to create an AI tool that would make professors angry. He succeeded.

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