Our paper thus reckons age-gating proposals as disproportionate restrictions on the rights of children and society at large. Or as Amnesty International has observed, “right diagnosis, wrong prescription.”
By Bronwyn Howell | June 18, 2026
Bipartisan legislation proposed last week in the US Senate by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) provides sound ways to push back against and expose the underhanded, informal brand…
By Clay Calvert | June 16, 2026
Cost escalation in U.S. nuclear power was never inevitable — it reflected policy choice
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 15, 2026
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
The danger is not simply that regulators may overestimate market power. It is that they underestimate market value.
By Mark Jamison | June 8, 2026
America has already demonstrated that it can lead in creating artificial intelligence. The next challenge is proving that we can lead in applying it.
By Mark Jamison | June 8, 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
We should express due appreciation for the pontiff’s profound effort to understand AI, and we should also welcome and encourage the unique power of language—its ability to bridge gaps, to…
By Michael M. Rosen | June 7, 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