Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the TikTok divest-or-ban bill against a constitutional challenge. The result was unsurprising given how poorly TikTok fared at…
By Daniel Lyons | December 20, 2024
Description AEI fellows James W. Coleman and Adam J. White join Santi Ruiz of the Institute for Progress and Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan Law School to discuss…
By James Coleman | Adam White | December 20, 2024
Decades into the Information Age, privacy continues to bedevil policymakers and businesses. Does treating personal information as common-law property offer a framework for thinking about privacy protection and maximizing consumer…
By Jim Harper | December 9, 2024
On Election Day, voters delivered at least one clear message: Remove the policy roadblocks standing in the way of greater fossil energy production, American oil and natural gas in particular.…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 3, 2024
The leader of the Republican Party and our country’s next president has tapped a pro-choice scion of the country’s most famous Democratic dynasty to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. In keeping…
By M. Anthony Mills | December 2, 2024
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
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
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
As the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz and Donald Trump-JD Vance campaigns pour resources into Maine to compete for electoral votes, both the Vice President and former President Trump could benefit from…
By Mark Jamison | October 31, 2024
Key Points Read the pdf. Executive Summary New and increasingly capable artificial intelligence applications are a fact of life. They offer great promise of advances in human welfare but also…
By Bronwyn Howell | October 31, 2024
This summer, Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso’s Energy Permitting Reform Act passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee by a 15-4 vote and the House of…
By James W. Coleman | Thomas Hochman | October 29, 2024
Last month, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, which tests the constitutionality of a federal law that would ban the popular social…
By Daniel Lyons | October 25, 2024
The future of the clean energy transition is cloudy. It’s well-known that there are disagreements—wide disagreements—between Republicans and Democrats about our energy future. But less well-known is the bedrock of…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | Ruy Teixeira | October 25, 2024
Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, reignited the debate about how best to regulate the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. Newsom’s veto illustrates a cautious approach to regulating…
By John Bailey | October 17, 2024
The current proxy advisory system — in which proxy advisors make recommendations to investors and asset managers on how they should vote on shareholder proposals — has evolved into a…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 15, 2024