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A History Lesson for Robert Lighthizer
Blog Post
AEIdeas

A History Lesson for Robert Lighthizer

The “break” in US trade policy came under Trump and Biden, not in the 1990s. Recently, a spate of news stories has attempted to predict future US trade policy under a potential…

The Government is Gunning for Live Nation. It’s Making a Historic Mistake 
Article
The Hill

The Government is Gunning for Live Nation. It’s Making a Historic Mistake 

In today’s complex business environment, being a CEO is akin to playing three-dimensional chess. Markets and supply chains are constantly disrupted by global conflicts, financial markets remain volatile, and AI…

The Energy Policy Act of 2026
Article
The Honest Broker

The Energy Policy Act of 2026

“When I talk about energy, I am talking about jobs. Our American economy runs on energy—no energy, no jobs. In the long run, it is just that simple.” President Gerald Ford,…

Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”
Journal Publication
npj Natural Hazards

Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”

Abstract For more than two decades, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a count of weather-related disasters in the United States that it estimates have exceeded…

Legislation, Litigation, or Licensing? Resolving Journalists’ Copyright Concerns About Training Generative AI Tools
Blog Post
AEI

Legislation, Litigation, or Licensing? Resolving Journalists’ Copyright Concerns About Training Generative AI Tools

In May, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, comprising sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Todd Young (R-IN), issued a report, Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the…

How New Graduates Can Thrive in a Workplace Dominated by AI
Book
Deseret News

How New Graduates Can Thrive in a Workplace Dominated by AI

Dwight Eisenhower’s advice about plans and planning is still relevant today On June 6, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “the…

Is This the “Compute Era”?
Article
The Dispatch

Is This the “Compute Era”?

The chip manufacturer Nvidia reported its first-quarter earnings last week—and it was another blockbuster. For the first three months of 2024, Nvidia booked $26 billion in revenue, up 18 percent from the…

Creating a New American Surveillance State
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Creating a New American Surveillance State

The practice of think-tankery provides one very little feedback. It’s a bit like shouting into the wind. One can’t be sure of being heard, and the winds of malign policy…

Scientific Integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”
Article
The Honest Broker

Scientific Integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”

Today, npj Natural Hazards, a journal in the Nature family of journals, officially published my new paper, “Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters.”  The paper shows — irrefutably in my view —…

Inside Tech’s $2 Trillion Technical Debt
Article
AEIdeas

Inside Tech’s $2 Trillion Technical Debt

Technical debt, the accumulation of shortcuts and compromises in software systems, is an issue across industries with consequences ranging from system failures and security breaches to hindered innovation. The Wall…

Imposing Net-Neutrality Regulations Would Be a Step Backward
Article
Orlando Sentinel

Imposing Net-Neutrality Regulations Would Be a Step Backward

Net neutrality is a sometimes well-intentioned, but always misguided attempt to regulate the internet under the guise of fairness and equality. Except for a brief moment during the Obama administration,…

Scarlett Johansson’s Spat with OpenAI Reveals Deeper Conflicts over Technology
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Scarlett Johansson’s Spat with OpenAI Reveals Deeper Conflicts over Technology

“I’m different from you,” the advanced artificial intelligence chatbot named Samantha tells Joaquin Phoenix’s protagonist in her low, sultry voice in director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film Her. “This doesn’t make me love…

Justice Kavanaugh Unfiltered: What His Recent Remarks May Portend for Murthy v. Missouri
Blog Post
AEIdeas

Justice Kavanaugh Unfiltered: What His Recent Remarks May Portend for Murthy v. Missouri

It’s relatively rare to peer directly into the constitutional thinking of sitting US Supreme Court justices. Although such glimpses surface most visibly in the opinions justices join or author, they also are…

Managers of Large Public Retirement Funds Need to Grow a Backbone
Op-Ed
Washington Examiner

Managers of Large Public Retirement Funds Need to Grow a Backbone

Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first the managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the New York State Common Retirement Fund practice to have it both ways.  The problem…

What the IPCC Says about Drought
Article
The Honest Broker

What the IPCC Says about Drought

Last week, I testified before the Senate Committee on the Budget in a hearing titled, Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate.1 The hearing was the 18th in the Committee’s series…