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December 6, 2024
Our Digital Future Went Off-Course Under Biden; Can Trump Put Antitrust Back in Line?
President-elect Trump faces a pivotal choice: continue the Biden administration’s ill-advised antitrust crusade against America’s leading tech companies, or chart a more balanced course that lets customer choice foster invention and growth. The stakes are high. If the campaign against digital companies creating uniquely valuable products, sometimes by acquisition, is successful, it will do…
December 2, 2024
The MAGA Science Agenda Reveals America’s Future
The leader of the Republican Party and our country’s next president has tapped a pro-choice scion of the country’s most famous Democratic dynasty to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. In keeping with the bewildering dynamics of today’s negative partisanship, conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation have cheered the selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while liberals have…
November 22, 2024
The Case for a Smarter Antitrust Policy
As Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term, his administration must change the direction of America’s antitrust policy. Over the past four years, antitrust enforcement has become unmoored from its economic foundations, driven instead by ideological zeal and political opportunism. The result? A policy that leaves businesses in limbo, consumers worse off, and innovation at…
October 29, 2024
The Energy Permitting Reform Act Doesn’t Go Far Enough
This summer, Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso’s Energy Permitting Reform Act passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee by a 15-4 vote and the House of Representatives is now working on passing its own permitting reform. Both bills reflects a growing bipartisan consensus that after years of bottlenecks and delays to…
October 23, 2024
Both Harris and Trump Pose Problems for U.S. Energy Producers.
AEI Scholar Benjamin Zycher contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Regulatory Policy Experts: Both Harris and Trump Threaten Constraints on Innovation, as a group of experts outlined the many ways in which either potential administration’s understanding of how regulation of technology can impede innovation and threaten America’s dominance in that sector. Below is a section from Benjamin Zycher’s contribution. For…
October 7, 2024
Are Hurricanes Getting Worse?
That “climate change” — undefined and usually unquantified — is making weather patterns more adverse is a given among the chattering classes, but it always is useful to examine the actual underlying data. A prominent example appeared in a recent column in The Hill, in which reporter Rachel Frazin argues that “Climate change is making hurricanes like Hurricane Helene more…
September 30, 2024
The Central Trump and Harris Dangers Are Monstrous
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris presidencies would engender political and policy outcomes monstrous in very different ways. Donald Trump is a thoroughly despicable man, a narcissist, and abject liar devoid of dignity and incapable of consistent behavior worthy of the presidency. Even now when a George Costanza-type “opposite” suppression of his instincts would advance…
September 16, 2024
Is Joe Biden the “Drill, Baby, Drill” President?
My AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. argues in a recent post that “Joe Biden Is the ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ President,” by virtue of the time trend for U.S. oil production on federal lands (onshore and offshore) for 2008-2023. In summary, Pielke reproduces the data on oil production from federal lands as reported by the U.S….
September 16, 2024
Punish the Administrators, Not the Researchers, for Campus Antisemitism
It is never wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But that is the perverse prospect we now face because of the striking failure of many college and university officials to confront campus antisemitism, both during the last academic year and now as the students return to campus. Political decisionmakers who view the performance of the administrators as unacceptable…
August 5, 2024
Letter to the Editor: The Benefits of Carbon Emissions Outweigh the Costs
FacebookTwitterLinkedIn In a useful op-ed pointing out the endless series of falsehoods promoted by climate alarmists over the years (“Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions,” Aug. 1), Bjorn Lomborg asserts that “climate economics generally finds that the costs of [man-made emissions] outweigh the benefits.” That is not correct. The economic models for the most part…