The rise of streaming platforms like Spotify has reshaped music economics, revealing the industry’s longstanding flawed incentive structures that can make it difficult for artists to be paid for their…
By Shane Tews | February 15, 2024
Suppose that a strong earthquake were to destroy a sizable part of a city. The rebuilding process would involve massive investment, procurement of materials and services, and employment. But can anyone believe…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 14, 2024
If lawmakers spent as much time thinking through the First Amendment implications of their bills as they do devising acronyms, judges might labor less and states wouldn’t pay the attorney fees of plaintiffs who…
By Clay Calvert | February 14, 2024
The Biden administration’s move to stop approving liquefied natural gas exports is a breathtaking decision to exacerbate climate change and air pollution, betray our allies, and kill clean energy investment. It is a rare, lose-lose…
By James W. Coleman | February 13, 2024
In case you missed it, ten days ago, the US and EU held the fifth ministerial meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), since its inception in 2021.…
By Claude Barfield | February 13, 2024
Say what you will about the myriad confusions and inconsistencies characterizing the overall Biden administration policy agenda, both foreign and domestic, it nonetheless is fair to describe its climate agenda as single-minded, particularly in the context…
By Benjamin Zycher | February 12, 2024
In 1991, in a small farming town 15 miles west of Fresno, California, the last hand-operated telephone switchboard in the US went automatic. The moment completed what can now be understood…
By Will Rinehart | February 12, 2024
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) targets “Big Tech” platforms under the idea that new regulations will increase competition and user choice. But by mandating openness, these new rules could inadvertently…
By Shane Tews | February 8, 2024
While social media companies’ top executives were being “battered” by “withering bipartisan criticism” during a January Senate hearing regarding harms their platforms allegedly cause minors, Florida lawmakers were considering a bill broadly barring anyone…
By Clay Calvert | February 7, 2024
In New Zealand, February 6 is Waitangi Day, the local equivalent of the United States’ Fourth of July. On this day in 1840, Captain William Hobson the Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales and…
By Bronwyn Howell | February 6, 2024
On January 22, AEI hosted an expert panel on the US’s stance on spectrum and telecommunications policy following the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). The event started with a conversation between…
By Shane Tews | February 5, 2024
The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on February 26 in two First Amendment cases––NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice––that will determine how much editorial freedom social media platforms possess to define their own “speech-based communities” in…
By Clay Calvert | February 2, 2024
The Supreme Court is poised to reconsider a fundamental principle of administrative law. The “Chevron Doctrine” requires the court to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, rather than resolving the…
By Daniel Lyons | February 1, 2024
Semiconductor titans are angling to feast on new public subsidies even before they have digested the first tranche. Two weeks ago in Davos, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, in effect, made…
By Claude Barfield | January 31, 2024
Mr. Verret argues that Never Trumpers should vote for Mr. Trump because Mr. Trump “is the only alternative to” Mr. Biden’s leftist policies. Most of Mr. Biden’s policies have been…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 29, 2024