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The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
Shoshana Weissmann, the director of digital media at the R Street Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, told me that these regulations might superficially seem similar to a liquor store or a ...
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Senator Booker’s Blocking of Public Safety Legislation Comes When We Can Least Afford It
Less than 24 hours after New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan, Congress had a rare ...
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R Street suggests path for ‘navigating’ open-source AI debate over security versus innovation
The R Street Institute is offering policymakers an alternative to “all-or-nothing” approaches in the enduring open- versus closed-source artificial intelligence debate, calling for federal guidelines ...
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U.K.’s Online Safety Act Censors the Internet—A Preview of U.S. Proposals
The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...
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Putting American AI Innovation First in Antitrust
Last week, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan,” which presents a largely positive vision for how the United ...
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New Zealand Cut Spending—and Came Out Ahead
In the early 1980s, New Zealand’s economy was in serious trouble. Deficits were ballooning, unemployment was rising, and ...
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State Senate begins unlikely quest to ax income tax
Toward the end of last legislative session, there was increasing chatter about abolishing Georgia’s income tax. Lawmakers even formed a committee—the Senate Study Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s ...
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Organizations Seek Public Input to Energy Tax Credit Modifications
August 4, 2025 Treasury Secretary Scott BessentU.S. Department of the Treasury1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20220 Commissioner Billy LongInternal Revenue Service (IRS)1111 Constitution ...
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Why defunding the Election Assistance Commission may hurt election integrity
Americans want secure, trustworthy elections. Unfortunately, the president’s proposed budget envisions a substantial ...
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Trump’s ‘Woke AI’ Efforts Should Focus on the Real Problem
On July 23, the Trump administration released a major artificial intelligence (AI) policy blueprint titled “Winning the Race: ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: What happens when you freeze energy prices?
A number of political candidates who promote price freezes—also called price controls—in industries like housing have ...
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August Spotlight on Criminal Justice: The Alcatraz Revival No One Asked For
When President Donald J. Trump’s advisors recently floated the idea of reopening Alcatraz as a functioning prison, it was—as with many things in the administration these days—hard to tell whether they ...