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I recently wrote a piece for The Dispatch on why Republicans are so reluctant to participate in the “Conference of the ...

Note: This is our final Safer Solutions entry for 2025. We’ll be back Jan. 7, 2026. Today, talk of curbing the supply of ...

Advanced transmission technologies, otherwise known as ATTs, could help expand the existing grid’s capacity, freeing up space for some of the load growth that economy-wide electrification and data ...

If you squint at today’s AI policy debates, you may see the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the distance. In this conversation, Matt Perault, head of AI policy, a16z, sits down with Adam Thierer, ...

On December 11, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order (EO) on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI)” to address the rapid proliferation of state and ...

Note: This piece draws on insights from the panel discussion held during the R Street Institute’s virtual event “Fragile ...

New ballot campaigns will tackle two of the state’s top problems: uncontrolled taxes and a Byzantine regulatory system.

But some experts and watchdog groups warn that state-level policies may be insufficient to manage the massive grid costs associated with data centers. “Federal lawmakers should not assume at face ...

Battles over federal taxation and spending policy took up much of the floor time in Congress in 2025. But several tech-related legislative proposals have flown under the radar this year, including a ...

A classic computer game series may hold one of the most important lessons for the world’s newest, most controversial ...

On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina—a random, ...