Last week, SpaceX pushed back its timetable for the launch of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and singled out government regulations as the cause: Unfortunately, we continue to be…
By Will Rinehart | September 23, 2024
A few days ago Australian legislators introduced a bill focused on “Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation.” The Australian Parliament explains the purpose of the bill: The bill proposes to amend the Broadcasting…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 23, 2024
Several weeks ago, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced that the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) would focus on four technology areas over the next…
By Claude Barfield | September 23, 2024
SummaryEnergy “savings” as asserted by DoE in its notional CRE Standards as analyzed in theNotice of Data Availability and Request for Comment are illegitimate as a benefit of any suchStandards…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 23, 2024
Several weeks ago, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced that the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) would focus on four technology areas over the next three years,…
By Claude Barfield | September 23, 2024
When a company provides a product capable of multiple uses, should the company be blamed because some of its customers misuse the product to break the law? In the copyright…
By Daniel Lyons | September 20, 2024
A federal court last week in NetChoice v. Reyes preliminarily blocked enforcement of a Utah law for likely violating the First Amendment speech rights of social media companies “to collage user-generated speech into their ‘own distinctive compilation[s] of…
By Clay Calvert | September 19, 2024
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, passed by Congress three years ago, set out to close the digital divide by…
By Shane Tews | September 19, 2024
A wave of new research is shedding light on artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential to change how we teach, learn, and assess student performance. From automating tedious grading tasks to enhancing…
By John Bailey | September 18, 2024
George Stigler’s 1971 paper “The Theory of Economic Regulation,” stands as an important piece of economic research. While most of the profession was convinced regulation advanced the overall public interest…
By Will Rinehart | September 18, 2024
I’m writing this week from Tokyo, where I am participating in a fascinating symposium on “Energy Security and Global Warming in an Increasingly Uncertain International Climate,” sponsored by the University…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 18, 2024
In the world of tech and tax complications, the recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling ordering Apple to pay a whopping €13 billion ($14 billion) in back taxes to…
By Shane Tews | September 17, 2024
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…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 16, 2024
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…
By Benjamin Zycher | September 16, 2024
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama is right, at least about one thing. The American political system is a vetocracy, a system ruled by vetoes. And in recent decades, this excessive power…
By Will Rinehart | September 16, 2024