The Current State of Privacy Regulation The United States is experiencing a rapid proliferation of state-level privacy laws, creating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Since California pioneered comprehensive privacy legislation…
By Will Rinehart | April 14, 2025
The concept of “misinformation” is deeply condescending. As commonly used in our discourse, it says the following to and about the public: “You’re getting the wrong information, and it’s causing…
By Jim Harper | April 11, 2025
In their misguided attempts to foster competition and innovation, US and European regulators are forging shackles for the very engines that drive technological progress. The Department of Justice, Federal Trade…
By Mark Jamison | April 10, 2025
Climate scenarios are fundamental to climate research and policy. For more than a decade, one scenario dominated research informing discussions of climate among scientists and decision makers. Called RCP8.5, today that…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 10, 2025
Last week, Amazon subsidiary Project Kuiper announced plans to launch the first 27 satellites in its 3,000-plus planned low earth orbit (LEO) constellation from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 10, 2025
Money grabs by politicians and ideological interest groups are nothing new, but the spate of recent proposals for climate “Superfund” laws — attempting to blame and tax the fossil energy…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 9, 2025
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Measuring Human Leadership Skills With AI Agents, presents evidence that artificial intelligence may soon play a central role in evaluating…
By Brent Orrell | Raphaël Colard | April 9, 2025
Department of Government Efficiency, but the world’s richest person recently scored an important––albeit largely overlooked––First Amendment victory for social media platforms against intrusive, peek-under-the-hood government regulations. In late February, a…
By Clay Calvert | April 9, 2025
Does biology determine destiny, or is society the dominant cause of masculine and feminine traits? In this spirited exchange, the psychologist Cordelia Fine and the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven unpack…
By Carole Hooven | April 8, 2025
In February 2025, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced the creation of a privacy working group to address many of the now-familiar challenges created by our advanced digital…
By Jim Harper | April 8, 2025
Last month, climate scientist Kate Marvel, of NASA, shared “something I have really struggled with” about extreme event attribution. She was speaking as an invited expert in a public information-gathering session of…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 7, 2025
Spectrum management is crucial to our digital future as it provides the invisible regulatory framework enabling efficient and equitable allocation of finite radio frequency resources. Without comprehensive, forward-thinking spectrum policies,…
By Shane Tews | April 7, 2025
For this first edition of THB Subscriber Questions (THBSQ#1) I am going to address one question asked by many readers. Anders Valland asks: Professor, now you know where it starts. What…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 4, 2025
President Donald Trump fired two Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last Tuesday, a move that raises important questions about the independence of regulatory agencies. If challenged in…
By Mark Jamison | April 4, 2025
In the wake of Covid, trust in scientific and medical experts has eroded and become starkly polarized, threatening the ability of science agencies to sustain broad public support. The National…
By M. Anthony Mills | April 3, 2025