The Supreme Court’s Rebuke of Government Manipulation of the Marketplace of Ideas in Moody v. NetChoice
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The Supreme Court’s Rebuke of Government Manipulation of the Marketplace of Ideas in Moody v. NetChoice

FacebookTwitterLinkedIn The US Supreme Court typically delivers momentous, often divisive rulings in late June, right before the summer recess. This year, the Court dove even deeper into the calendar, not releasing its First…

Bitcoin as Babel—and Other Religious Metaphors
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Bitcoin as Babel—and Other Religious Metaphors

The tower of Babel was an affront to God, and Bitcoin was an affront to government. So each was smashed by the power it challenged. There are hints in Roger…

Separation of Powers and Division of Labor
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Separation of Powers and Division of Labor

On Friday June 28, the Supreme Court issued their 6-3 ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the deference to administrative agencies established in the Chevron v. Environmental Protection Agency…

Reflections on Murthy v. Missouri: Opportunities Missed, Lessons Learned
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Reflections on Murthy v. Missouri: Opportunities Missed, Lessons Learned

In a six-to-three decision, the US Supreme Court last week declined to address the substantive merits of the plaintiffs’ jawboning claims in Murthy v. Missouri that multiple government officials unlawfully coerced and significantly encouraged leading social…

Climate Fueled Extreme Weather
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The Honest Broker

Climate Fueled Extreme Weather

It is now a ubiquitous cultural ritual to blame any and every weather event on climate change. Those hot days? Climate change. That hurricane? Climate change. The flood somewhere that…

The ESG Proxy Advisor Game Starts to Crack
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The ESG Proxy Advisor Game Starts to Crack

For many years “proxy advisory” services have been provided by a duopoly comprising two companies, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, with a combined market share of 97 percent engendered…

The Haphazard Road to Rural Broadband 
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The Dispatch

The Haphazard Road to Rural Broadband 

I recently got a message asking me what I thought about this Washington Times article by Susan Ferrechio on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. As part of the Infrastructure Investment and…

The End of Chevron Deference
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The End of Chevron Deference

In 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Anne Gorsuch (the mother of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch), decide to change how it defined a “source” of pollution under the Clean…

Competition in AI Regulation: Essential for an Emerging Industry
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Competition in AI Regulation: Essential for an Emerging Industry

Competition is beneficial in many areas of life. It can lead to lower prices, higher quality goods and services, more innovation, and greater variety. When companies compete for workers, they may…

Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations
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Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations

As part of the initiative to bolster cybersecurity defenses, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is championing the widespread adoption of Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), a security mechanism to…

AI Regulation Increases Certainty—but for Whom?
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AI Regulation Increases Certainty—but for Whom?

Benjamin Franklin’s reputed last great quote, in his November 1789 letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, opined: Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be…

Challenging China’s Electric Vehicle Export Surge: US and Europe Diverge
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Challenging China’s Electric Vehicle Export Surge: US and Europe Diverge

China’s move to dominate the world electric vehicle (EV) market poses major challenges to the world trading system and, the US argues, to national security. While the policy responses are still…

That’s AllotA Energy!
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That’s AllotA Energy!

Later this week on Colorado’s beautiful Western Slope, I’ll be giving a keynote talk at an energy transition conference. The timing is perfect because I get to share some of…

The Constitutional Problems with Social Media Warning Labels
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The Constitutional Problems with Social Media Warning Labels

Last week, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthycalled for a “warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” He contends it…

The Lurking Dangers in State-Level AI Regulation
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The Lurking Dangers in State-Level AI Regulation

An ordinary bill signing became extraordinary last month when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis used the occasion to deliver a detailed critique of the bill he was signing, Senate Bill 24-205. The bill is…