A federal judge’s December ruling in NetChoice v. Griffin bars Arkansas from enforcing part of a new law that restricts the First Amendment rights of both social media users and…
By Clay Calvert | February 10, 2026
Thirty years later, there is still much to learn from our experiences with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That is the focus of our AEI event of February 10, 2026,…
By Mark Jamison | February 9, 2026
Australian regulations may be stricter with social media, but they lag, not lead, most American initiatives.
By Bronwyn Howell | February 6, 2026
Whether the Seventh Amendment permits an agency to determine liability and impose punitive sanctions itself, so long as a jury trial may occur later—if the government chooses to pursue one.…
By Daniel Lyons | February 5, 2026
Framing today’s social media addiction cases in terms of prior lawsuits targeting tobacco companies for selling cigarettes is flawed for several important reasons that collectively suggest why Meta (Instagram) and…
By Shane Tews | February 4, 2026
Quantum computing has occupied a peculiar place in the policy imagination: perpetually imminent, strategically important, and operationally vague. It has been featured in national strategies and long-range forecasts yet has…
By Shane Tews | February 3, 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
In a media ecosystem no longer defined by scarcity, Carr’s revival of the Equal Time Rule may say less about ensuring democratic fairness than about how long a broadcast-era solution…
By Daniel Lyons | January 28, 2026
Following the US Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings in the jawboning cases of Murthy v. Missouri and National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, it was a matter of when—not if—another…
By Clay Calvert | January 27, 2026
People would have a due process right to contest seizures of their data when government agents do not use a warrant. Whether people get such rights ultimately depends on whether…
By Jim Harper | January 27, 2026
The world currently has 8.2 billion people and a global economy approaching $120 trillion. The world also routinely experiences extreme weather events like tropical cyclones, floods, and tornadoes. [1] Given these facts,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 26, 2026
At Davos this week, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, gave a standout talk about the path he believes AI will take in the coming years. While he thinks…
By Will Rinehart | January 23, 2026
Today I share my January column for Dispatch Energy. In it, I identify some important, but deeply buried, assumptions in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA ) most recent World Energy Outlook…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | January 22, 2026
“This is a case about minor Plaintiffs’ alleged addiction to Defendants’ social media platforms and the alleged adverse effects flowing from that addiction.” That’s how California Superior Court Judge Carolyn…
By Clay Calvert | January 22, 2026
A federal court recently blocked Colorado from enforcing part of a new law that compels social media platforms “to provide non-commercial disclosures to minors about the alleged health impacts of…
By Clay Calvert | January 21, 2026