A well-established tenet of practitioners and academics is that well-functioning competitive markets require a stable and predictable legal framework. If this is not present because policies are unclear, politicians interfere…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 19, 2024
When people talk about Illinois politics, they often reference Chicago. But when Chicagoans talk about politics, they talk about Springfield, the state capital where I was born and raised. Quite…
By Will Rinehart | November 18, 2024
Businesses and startups alike have long served to drive American ingenuity and growth. Within the United States alone, over 75,000 successful startups have broken into the marketplace, leading the US…
By Shane Tews | November 18, 2024
“To expect the unexpected,” Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1895 play An Ideal Husband, “shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” If so, then when it comes to predicting developments in the second Trump…
By Michael M. Rosen | November 15, 2024
Opponents of fossil fuels claim to oppose pollution, but they are all too happy to pollute our legal and constitutional institutions in pursuit of their climate-policy agenda. The latest manifestation…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 15, 2024
Can a law violate the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech because it does too little or regulates too few actors to substantially mitigate the harms and advance the interests it’s designed to address? The…
By Clay Calvert | November 13, 2024
In 2022, on a bipartisan basis, the U.S. Congress passed the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act of 2022 requiring the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate an expert assessment of global catastrophic…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 13, 2024
The suicide of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III this February is tragic, but should the individuals and business entities behind the generative artificial intelligence product known as Character.AI that allegedly caused…
By Clay Calvert | November 12, 2024
Last week, the Financial Times reported that President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing an “energy czar,” described as: The new energy tsar role and its powers are not yet finalised, but people familiar with…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 12, 2024
This is the fourth presidential election cycle that I’ve worked as a tech policy analyst and it’s easily been my least busy. Normally, a presidential candidate would suggest a crazy…
By Will Rinehart | November 11, 2024
The European Union presents businesses with a complex challenge: They must comply with three major regulatory frameworks that sometimes have conflicting requirements. These frameworks are the General Data Protection Regulation…
By Shane Tews | November 11, 2024
The game of reading political outcomes is more art than science, especially at the national level. Election results turn on hundreds or thousands of policy and campaign margins. There is…
By Jim Harper | November 11, 2024
A minor brouhaha erupted on social media this week when the editor of Scientific American, Laura Helmuth, in a late-night fit of rage, posted profanity-filled and disparaging comments about those who…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 8, 2024
While the eyes of much of the country were on Pennsylvania and Georgia last week, the tech community was focused on Cincinnati, where the US Court of Appeals for the…
| November 8, 2024
It’s an all-too-predictable, rinse-and-repeat pattern: (1) A state adopts a statute to protect minors from the social media’s supposedly deleterious effects; (2) the law is challenged on First Amendment grounds; (3) a…
By Clay Calvert | November 7, 2024