Astronomer Carl Sagan observed in his popular 1980 television show Cosmos, “There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; it’s the aperture to finding out what’s…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 25, 2024
On September 27, AEI hosted an event on federal broadband policies, featuring a conversation between AEI’s Mark Jamison and the Federal Communications Commission’s Brendan Carr and a panel featuring INCOMPAS’s…
By Mark Jamison | November 22, 2024
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…
By Mark Jamison | November 22, 2024
In an era when civic literacy is at concerning lows, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate’s Senate Immersion Module (SIM) is revolutionizing civic education by transforming…
By Shane Tews | November 21, 2024
As President Trump takes office for the second time, a pressing question will be how to handle the Biden administration’s legacy of targeting large businesses. In 2021, President Biden issued…
By Mark Jamison | November 20, 2024
The US government has acted as major contributor to science research since the mid-20th century, both in terms of broad basic research and targeted projects. As industrial policy has gained…
By James Pethokoukis | M. Anthony Mills | November 19, 2024
He’s a climate denier! That is the standard reaction of many in the climate lobby when encountering views on climate and energy deviating from the monomaniacal view that climate is…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | November 19, 2024
The US Supreme Court declined last month in National Press Photographers Association v. Higgins to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Texas law that restricts journalists’ newsgathering abilities by criminalizing using drones to…
By Clay Calvert | November 19, 2024
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