Last week in Belém, Brazil the 30th Conference of Parties to the U.N Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded with little accomplished, according to most observers. Perhaps the most significant…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 24, 2025
Meta’s big win Tuesday is a victory not only for the company, but also for anyone who believes antitrust law should be grounded in realities, not ideology. A federal judge struck…
By Mark Jamison | November 24, 2025
Remember the last time you got a text that felt off? Maybe it claimed that your package was delayed or mentioned an unpaid toll, with a link to a website…
By Shane Tews | November 24, 2025
Last week, I commented on the infeasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean outpost Christmas Island. While the island is strategically well situated to monitor military…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 21, 2025
For the first two decades of its existence, the American tech sector flourished under a bipartisan celebration of the country’s global leadership at the cutting edge of digital innovation. Then,…
By Daniel Lyons | November 21, 2025
In 2015 in Paris, countries from around the world agreed to accelerate the decarbonization of their economies in response to climate change. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 20, 2025
By late September, the New York Times had identified “more than 145” instances of people being “fired, suspended, reassigned or pushed to resign . . . for things they said…
By Clay Calvert | November 19, 2025
Antitrust enforcement in the United States too often fails to deliver what it promises. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have won historic cases—the breakups of Standard Oil and…
By Mark Jamison | November 18, 2025
Following my lecture last week at Cornell, one Cornell professor, a well-known climate activist, called for the firing of the director of the Cornell Atkinson Institute for Sustainability — an accomplished scientist…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 17, 2025
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is the basic law governing federal reviews of construction projects’ environmental impacts. Unfortunately, it has evolved into an environmentally destructive monstrosity. Why? Because…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 17, 2025
The United States faces a cybersecurity crisis: not from foreign actors, but from internal political deadlock that has dismantled one of its most effective defense tools. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing…
By Shane Tews | November 17, 2025
I spent this week in Ithaca, New York visiting Cornell University. It was a fantastic visit. I met with faculty, researchers, students, staff, administrators, and taught a few classes. I…
By Roger Pielke | November 14, 2025
On November 6, Reuters reported that Google was planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean territory—Christmas Island—after signing a deal with the Australian Department…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 14, 2025
Section 1033 of the Dodd–Frank Act is the foundation of open banking in the United States—giving individuals the right to access and share their own financial data with services of…
By Shane Tews | November 13, 2025
It has become popular in both parties to believe that the government should be in the business of being in business. From Democrats proposing city-run grocery stores to Republicans buying…
By Mark Jamison | November 13, 2025