Yet the core question remains still how to fund the commission’s ever-growing budget as the bureaucratic demands of its governance of digital firms and markets continues to grow.
By Bronwyn Howell | October 23, 2026
Anthropic announced plans to commit 5 percent of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, with more potentially added as the company’s value grows. At the roughly $2 trillion valuation reportedly…
By John Bailey | October 20, 2026
The distance between the the Video Privacy Protection Act’s origin story and the Salazar case illustrates the difference between privacy as reputation and privacy as anti-commerce.
By Jim Harper | October 20, 2026
Can students, especially Jewish students, participate fully and confidently in campus life? I returned to my alma mater to try to find out, and while I saw encouraging signs, America’s…
By Michael M. Rosen | October 18, 2026
It can hardly be surprising that when the government regulates to reduce risks, those partially relieved of the responsibility for managing those risks relax their efforts.
By Bronwyn Howell | October 16, 2026
Shane and Sam Love discuss the boundaries between cable broadband and wireless services, BEAD funding, and more.
By Shane Tews | October 15, 2026
But when we ask whether their ideas will truly benefit humankind, another group matters, too. Somewhere, there must be intellectual entrepreneurs who recognize what those ideas can do and take…
By Mark Jamison | October 9, 2026
Just over two months ago, Australia’s much anticipated provisions governing social media platform access by under-16s came into force. While it’s still early, let’s examine how various stakeholders have responded.…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 30, 2026
If you’ve ever raised children, you’re familiar with defenses like: “I didn’t hit my brother. My bat did!” We keep kids in whiffle ball until they understand culpability a little…
By Jim Harper | April 22, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to transform workplaces, fundamentally changing tasks, teamwork, and organizational dynamics. Several recent studies highlight promising early findings about how AI is affecting knowledge workers, suggesting…
By John Bailey | March 28, 2025
In the waning days of the Biden administration, a flurry of regulatory activity sought to cement policies that would be difficult for President Trump to unwind. New trade and labor agreements, expanded spending commitments, and a slew of…
By Mark Jamison | March 26, 2025
Donald Trump and Brendan Carr, the president’s choice to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seem intent on reinvigorating the Commission’s statutory authority to ensure that over-the-over broadcasters serve “the…
By Clay Calvert | March 25, 2025
The idea behind the nondelegation doctrine is sound: Congress should not delegate legislative power to executive branch agencies. But its implementation leaves much to be desired. Nearly every nondelegation case…
By Daniel Lyons | March 21, 2025
Will artificial intelligence help, replace, or kill us? These long-unanswered questions came back into focus earlier this week, as the Pew Research Center published the results of an eye-opening poll…
By Michael M. Rosen | March 21, 2025
President Trump’s recent executive order (EO) asserting more formal control over so-called independent agencies has sparked controversy. Critics decry it as a “fundamental reshaping of the federal government” and even…
By Mark Jamison | March 18, 2025