Decades into the Information Age, privacy continues to bedevil policymakers and businesses. Does treating personal information as common-law property offer a framework for thinking about privacy protection and maximizing consumer…
By Jim Harper | December 9, 2024
In the past couple of weeks I’ve read two things I want to recommend that are actually deeply related. The first is Brian Potter’s excellent history of technology analysis of…
By Lynne Kiesling | December 6, 2024
Yesterday, The Washington Post published what can only be described as a hit piece on the nominee for Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. The Post took issue with Wright’s claim that: “[R]eports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 6, 2024
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…
By Mark Jamison | December 6, 2024
Blair Levin is one of telecommunications policy’s most respected elder statesmen. He served as chief of staff to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Reed Hundt, executive director of the National…
By Daniel Lyons | December 5, 2024
As India’s economic landscape evolves amid population growth, crafting regulations that foster progress is critical. But how can India leverage its advanced digital infrastructure and young workforce to drive innovation…
By Shane Tews | December 5, 2024
Can treating information as a form of property empower people to protect privacy using their property rights? Consider the following two quotes: Consumers and businesses—each in their way and for…
By Jim Harper | December 4, 2024
Leading up to the presidential election, it was a spectator sport to watch media coverage trigger Donald Trump, provoking him to lash out in ways pandering to his political base.…
By Clay Calvert | December 3, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government made good on his September 10 threat to make Australia the first country to legislatively enforce a minimum age for social media access. In November,…
By Bronwyn Howell | December 3, 2024
On Election Day, voters delivered at least one clear message: Remove the policy roadblocks standing in the way of greater fossil energy production, American oil and natural gas in particular.…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 3, 2024
Faculty in U.S. universities overwhelmingly hold views on the political left. That probably won’t be news to most THB readers. Today’s post documents just how extreme today’s left-leaning ideological uniformity…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 2, 2024
Of the American holidays, Thanksgiving is by far my favorite. Over my academic career, Thanksgiving provided a much-needed respite in the final weeks of the fall semester before the home…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 2, 2024
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…
By M. Anthony Mills | December 2, 2024
In a nation where less than half of adults can name all three branches of government, a quarter cannot name even a single branch, and roughly 26 percent cannot name any First Amendment freedoms, America’s civic…
By Shane Tews | December 2, 2024
This year saw a new battleground in data regulation open with California’s Senate Bill (SB) 1047, which passed the California State Legislature but was ultimately vetoed by Governor Newsom. SB 1047…
By Will Rinehart | November 27, 2024