The introduction of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe has sparked a heated debate about the delicate balance between promoting competition and ensuring user safety in the digital landscape.…
By Shane Tews | March 20, 2024
Among my millennial friends, and even more so for Gen Z, it’s common to believe that the United States is in terminal decline. But I remain an outlier because I…
By Will Rinehart | March 19, 2024
Before I was married and a parent, I would write with high dudgeon about the defects of involving government in the business of child-rearing. In 2002, for example, I wrote about…
By Jim Harper | March 19, 2024
The City and County of Honolulu about four years ago filed a “public nuisance” lawsuit against the energy producers, attempting to hold them liable for the purported effects of anthropogenic climate change…
By Ben Zycher | March 19, 2024
The late Queen Elizabeth II is believed to have once famously opined “I have to be seen to be believed.” While Her Majesty’s words were assumed to be referring to the bright-colored…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 18, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF.https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-Choice-of-Law-Alternative-to-Federal-Preemption-of-State-Privacy-Law.pdf?x85095 Introduction A prominent theme in debates about US national privacy legislation is whether federal law should preempt state law. A federal statute could create one…
By Jim Harper | Geoffrey A. Manne | March 15, 2024
National markets need a national regulator, right? It makes no sense to have our large American companies face as many as 50 regulators. The inefficiencies are obvious, and the logic…
By Jim Harper | March 15, 2024
Sometimes US Supreme Court concurring opinions—those that agree with the majority’s result, but perhaps for different reasons—read more like dissents. The recent concurrence of Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson…
By Clay Calvert | March 14, 2024
In the halls of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and across the Atlantic in the chambers of the European Commission (EC), not to mention within the borders of Florida and…
By Mark Jamison | March 13, 2024
While the internet has improved monumentally since its early days of bandwidth restrictions and dial-up, customers are more demanding of the network and have little patience for latency on any…
By Shane Tews | March 13, 2024
Behind the growing challenge of robocalls lies a complex digital economy. As our digital footprints grow and our phone numbers become a key aspect of our online identity, providers and…
By Shane Tews | March 12, 2024
During oral arguments last month before the US Supreme Court in the First Amendment cases of Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, much discussion involved their procedural posture as facial challenges(not as-applied attacks) against Florida and Texas statutes…
By Clay Calvert | March 11, 2024
As the five-year anniversary approaches of the March 15 live streamed massacre of 51 people (with 50 more injured) by a lone shooter at two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques, it is apposite…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 8, 2024
The traditional bastions of news media are facing a formidable challenge: protecting themselves from the very consumers they aim to serve. Confronted with the of loss of advertising revenue to…
By Mark Jamison | March 7, 2024
In a development that can surprise no one, the Biden administration is reportedly planning to delay the schedule of its “multi-pollutant emissions standards” rule to force a massive shift to electric vehicles (EVs). The…
By Benjamin Zycher | March 6, 2024