Special interests profiting massively from the renewable fuels requirements claim that the new approval for summer E15 sales will save fuel consumers up to 30 cents per gallon. That is…
By Benjamin Zycher | June 15, 2026
So while the CMA’s decision prioritizes the rights and transparency needs of firms relying on a “strategic,” regulated company, it does so at the expense of end-consumer confidence in the…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 12, 2026
The scientific community functions as a republic—with its own governance of rules and norms, internal politics, and relationships with the states and publics that fund it.
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 11, 2026
The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks whether the E-Rate program should be changed to reflect today's digital environment. The honest answer is that we don't know, because we've never…
By Daniel Lyons | June 11, 2026
A recent poll conducted for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression indicates that a large portion the public is concerned about the federal government pressuring private businesses to influence…
By Clay Calvert | June 9, 2026
Congress and the White House are moving to micromanage railroads — putting a main artery of the U.S. economy at risk
By Mark Jamison | June 9, 2026
A federal privacy law with meaningful preemption would not eliminate every cost of privacy regulation, but it would make those costs more predictable and more uniform.
By Will Rinehart | June 8, 2026
The domain name registration market has a serious but solvable problem: An estimated one in five sales currently benefit criminal actors. New research puts that reality in sharp focus, and…
By Shane Tews | June 8, 2026
Shane is joined by Aubrey Wilson to discuss how Congress can provide members and staff with the training, guardrails, and practical support they need to use AI responsibly and effectively.
By Shane Tews | June 5, 2026
Lawmakers can break free from their Groundhog Day-like repetitive cycle of statutory futility in regulating social media platforms by adopting their own public-information campaigns and digital literacy programs to help…
By Clay Calvert | June 4, 2026
As we proceed deeper into an AI economy where scarce but expensive human resources are required to buttress against the excesses of (near-costlessly generated) AI spam, such taxes offer an…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 3, 2026
The SECURE Data Act would improperly sweep away state laws and legal approaches that help protect privacy and data security.
By Jim Harper | June 2, 2026
The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission's Draft Measures under the Digital Markets Act now threaten its integrity.
By Shane Tews | June 1, 2026
A week ago, I had the chance to attend Google I/O, which made one thing clear: the next phase of AI isn't about the extraordinary. It's about the everyday.
By John Bailey | May 29, 2026
Chatrie will make it no wiser to rely on legal protections. You must lock up your own stuff.
By Jim Harper | May 28, 2026