The majority opinion is broad because, she argues, it threatens to open the floodgates for corporations to “opt out of any law” (except for tax laws) by citing religious beliefs.

Songza was created by Aza Raskin and Scott Robbin in 2007. It was among the first apps to offer users playlists for specific “moods” or activities such as waking up, working out, commuting, concentrating, unwinding, entertaining, and sleeping. Spotify has since incorporated a similar feature into its product.

This is significantly higher than the 215,000 economists were anticipating.

Following the news, the S&P 500, the Dow, and the NASDAQ all rose; the Dow crossed 17,000 for the first time ever seconds after the opening bell.

This “to” was added in 1923.

When Douglass was eight, he was sent to Baltimore to live with a ship carpenter named Hugh Auld. Auld’s wife taught Douglass to read. “Going to live at Baltimore,” Douglass would later say, “laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.”

After Auld’s wife stopped teaching him, Douglass continued, secretly, to teach himself how to read and write. Later, when Douglass was hired out to another slaveowner, he taught other slaves on the plantation to read the New Testament at a weekly Sunday school.