Last month’s settlement between Meta Platforms and the attorneys general of 48 states entails both monetary payments and design changes to Facebook and Instagram. It also attempts to get competitors…
By Clay Calvert | September 4, 2026
Political courage requires putting social media age-gating proposals through proportionate policy analysis rather than profiting on the political popularity of imperfect laws.
By Bronwyn Howell | September 4, 2026
Shane is joined by Benjamin Alarie, and they discuss how AI could reshape legal practice, accelerate lawyers’ learning and work, and make the legal system more accessible.
By Shane Tews | September 3, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT likely offers a plaintiff’s playbook against chatbot companies while also telegraphing to lawmakers purported problems with chatbots…
By Clay Calvert | September 2, 2026
Google, Meta, and TikTok are fighting a California statute that targets personalized content feeds to minors and raises important questions about both the First Amendment expressive rights of platforms in…
By Clay Calvert | August 25, 2026
Shane is joined by Adam and Milton to discuss the ongoing debate over AI governance.
By Shane Tews | August 20, 2026
Today’s leftists make the mistake of assuming politicians can rearrange our economic outcomes.
By Mark Jamison | August 19, 2026
James Comey’s recent motion to dismiss his seashells threats indictment on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds relies partly on President Trump’s own social media posts. This motion to dismiss is…
By Clay Calvert | August 18, 2026
The Indian experience with digital identity verification using Aadhaar may prove informative if the need to ensure child social media safety is seen to be sufficiently important to necessitate the…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 14, 2026
Employees at several leading AI companies are asking the US government and international bodies to slow the development of frontier models. Doing so would put governments in the position of…
| August 13, 2026
How our political and legal system answers these questions will determine how deeply AI transforms the economy.
By Will Rinehart | August 13, 2026
A preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a Cornhusker State law that imposes digital age-verification and parental-consent obligations on social media platforms before minors can hold accounts carries important First Amendment…
By Clay Calvert | August 12, 2026
We have long conceived of searches and seizures as discrete events aimed at suspects of crime. Technology has a way of remixing things. Through Flock, Kansas maintains an ongoing search…
By Jim Harper | August 11, 2026
By revealing higher education’s overreliance on outputs as a proxy for learning, the AI revolution is prompting universities back to their mission: forming educated, discerning citizens who pursue truth.
By Daniel Lyons | August 7, 2026
Why when Prime Minister Albanese announced the AI strategy did he omit mention of mining? Perhaps because that industry needed neither government strategy nor funding to become a world AI…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 6, 2026