Regulation
AI is making everything weird
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping jobs, education, politics, and personal identity—sharing examples from scam…
DOGE’s ‘regulatory savings’ for businesses don’t mean budget cuts
This month the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) published new estimates of "savings" from various regulatory changes, which it says total $29.4 billion so far. The New York Times suggests several reasons…
What to expect now that Trump has scrapped Biden’s crippling AI regulations
President Donald Trump pledged to remove barriers to American leadership in AI in January. The president recently made good on this promise by directing the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to scrap President Joe…
GAO Overstepped Bounds on EV Rule Ban
The Government Accountability Office—an ostensibly nonpartisan congressional watchdog—has come under fire in recent days from Republicans, who accuse it of showing bias and overstepping its bounds. Established in 1921, the…
Trump Promised To ‘Save Vaping.’ His FDA Head Does Not Seem Inclined To Do That.
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump bragged that he "saved flavored vaping" during his first term and promised that he would "save vaping again." That promise was significant in light of the…
New online platforms are being shaped by regulation, not markets
Who do you think decides what you see and how you interact on your favorite online service? Most would point to Silicon Valley engineers and product managers tinkering behind the scenes. However, an underappreciated reality…
Federal judge blocks Trump initiative targeting foreign student visas
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suddenly terminated about 4,700 records in the database of foreign students with F-1 visas authorizing them to attend American universities. That move, which sowed panic…
Minnesota’s new anti-lead law will make most keys illegal
Come July, common keys for houses, cars, boats, and motorcycles will be illegal in Minnesota, save for uncertain intervention from the state Legislature. That's when the state's ban on the manufacture, sale, or…
Andrew Ferguson is taking up Lina Khan’s antitrust work at the FTC
On February 26, new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson announced the creation of the Joint Labor Task Force, continuing former Chair Lina Khan's departure from what is known as the consumer welfare…
The FTC’s probe into content moderation is an assault on the First Amendment
Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As many…
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