This two-part series examines the arguments in Murthy v. Missouri that Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar made on behalf of the federal government in her brief with the US Supreme Court. The first post provided background on Murthy (formerly Missouri v. Biden)…
By Clay Calvert | January 10, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF. Congress created the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, a prominent feature of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA),1 to usher areas without…
By Mark Jamison | January 9, 2024
On October 24, 2023, AEI hosted a panel to discuss a case facing Meta’s Oversight Board, which concerns an altered video posted by a Facebook user of President Joe Biden. The video…
By Shane Tews | January 9, 2024
The US Supreme Court crept closer last month to resolving the jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri when Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar filed her opening brief in this politically divisive battle over free speech and informal government censorship. She explained why…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2024
William McKinley won the presidency under the banner of the “Full Diner Pail” for workers allegedly underpinned by protection and high tariffs. Louis Brandeis, by contrast, was a free trader…
By Claude Barfield | January 5, 2024
Imagine two companies in the same business––generating and delivering information to consumers. One has done it for more than 170 years, the other––founded in 2015––for about 15 months. The older company…
By Clay Calvert | January 3, 2024
There is a certain class of book, the members of which have the ambivalent honor of being remembered for encapsulating the era in which they were written. Such books typically…
By M. Anthony Mills | January 2, 2024
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) has failed in his pursuit of a final approval of the Mountain Valley pipeline from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia, as the Senate refused even to give majority support…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 23, 2023
Last month, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence. Among the longest in recent decades and encompassing directives to dozens of federal agencies and certain companies, the order is…
By M. Anthony Mills | November 20, 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic was a disaster. Over a million Americans died—many in isolation in hospitals and nursing homes, far from their friends and family—and millions more became seriously sick, lost…
By Brian J. Miller | M. Anthony Mills | November 6, 2023
Abstract We analyse whether US federal aid to state and local governments impacted economic activity through either direct or cross-state spillover effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying an instrumental-variables framework…
By Stan Veuger | Beatrice Lee | Jeffrey Clemens | John Kearns | October 23, 2023
A carbon tax is considered by most economists to be the most efficient and effective way to reduce carbon emissions. However, a long-standing political challenge to a carbon tax is…
By Kyle Pomerleau | Shuting Pomerleau | October 23, 2023
For a long time, advocates and policymakers in the higher education space were fixated on improving “access” to higher education. As a society, we recognized that higher education was a…
By Beth Akers | October 20, 2023
Dr. Mandy Cohen has been on a national tour. The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she aims to rebuild trust in that troubled agency at a moment…
By M. Anthony Mills | October 4, 2023
One central characteristic of the Biden administration is its contempt for the letter of the law. When laws interfere with overriding political objectives, they are cast aside, and the courts are often…
By Benjamin Zycher | August 29, 2023