One thousand ships are sitting in or outside the Strait of Hormuz right now, and most of the coverage is about oil. This post covers what else is stuck: soybeans, helium for semiconductor fabs, frozen chicken from Savannah, urea for American farmers—plus the Jones Act waiver that expires May 17 and five stranded U.S. military-fleet vessels whose crews are still waiting. Also in this issue: the DOJ's ongoing lawsuit against Uber over ADA violations and what a decade of disability-rights litigation has actually won for wheelchair users (less than you'd hope); a CRS Report on internet architecture that is genuinely one of the best explanations of how the internet works and why it matters for AI and broadband policy; Army Corps permitting rules that affect nearly every infrastructure project in America; and an updated brief on Australia, AUKUS, and a trade relationship that just got more complicated.
Everything in the Water
One thousand ships are sitting in or outside the Strait of Hormuz right now, and most of the coverage is about oil. This post covers what else is stuck: soybeans, helium for semiconductor fabs, frozen chicken from Savannah, urea for American farmers—plus the Jones Act waiver that expires May 17 and five stranded U.S. military-fleet vessels whose crews are still waiting. Also in this issue: the DOJ's ongoing lawsuit against Uber over ADA violations and what a decade of disability-rights litigation has actually won for wheelchair users (less than you'd hope); a CRS Report on internet architecture that is genuinely one of the best explanations of how the internet works and why it matters for AI and broadband policy; Army Corps permitting rules that affect nearly every infrastructure project in America; and an updated brief on Australia, AUKUS, and a trade relationship that just got more complicated.