For purposes of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech, one critical threshold question is whether an age-verification law for social media imposes...
2022—Ohio common pleas court judge Christian Jenkins rules (in Pre-Term Cleveland v. Yost) that the Health Care Freedom Amendment adopted by Ohio voters in 2011...
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer demanded Monday a briefing for senators on Trump administration actions to curtail the "uninhibited" development of artificial intelligence, as researchers sound the alarm about runaway models that could harm humanity.
Last Tuesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood in Parliament and announced a ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In response, the Israeli government immediately announced that the British consulate in East Jerusalem, operating since the 19th century, would be closed. Nobody in London asked the roughly 18,000 Palestinians whose wages […]
This year, we’ve witnessed a tidal wave of positive movement to protect children online with the avalanche of Big Tech legal cases, and Meta is facing some of the most significant consequences. Now Congress has the opportunity to turn that momentum into lasting, industrywide standards. Meta’s $17 billion settlement with more than 47 state attorneys […]
Kansas City spent 45 years running a contracting program that its own hired consultant said the city couldn’t defend, then took two more months to admit it. On Aug. 13, the city council voted 12-0 to kill the Minority and Women Business Enterprise program and replace it with three tiers of race-neutral small business certification, […]
With the midterm elections just around the corner, healthcare and affordability will likely once again dominate the airwaves. There’s no shortage of ambitious reforms out there, yet Congress should start by focusing its attention on the biggest drivers of health spending in recent years: hospital systems. Between 2022 and 2024, hospital services represented 40% of […]
Last week, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an extraordinary measure — sanctions on an ostensibly allied nation, Israel. Joining the likes of Spain and Ireland, he denounced Jewish settlers in the West Bank as “terrorists” and accused them of “ethnic cleansing.” This move is widely recognized as a serious diplomatic escalation and has been […]
When senators return Monday from the August Recess, they face much unfinished business. Essential responsibilities that the Constitution assigns the president and the upper chamber are judicial nominations and confirmations with Senate advice and consent, because federal jurists resolve critical disputes involving life, liberty, and core rights, while they enjoy life tenure, so judges can […]
Illinois has identified a real problem in behavioral healthcare: some people with commercial insurance struggle to find in-network care, while some providers say low reimbursement discourages them from joining insurance networks. Those problems deserve attention. But recognizing a problem does not mean policymakers know the right solution. Illinois has chosen to mandate one. In December […]
Later this month, President Donald Trump will meet with China’s Xi Jinping in Washington. Earlier this summer, Trump met with European leaders at a NATO summit in Turkey. You can guess which one occupied more of the president’s attention. China isn’t America’s only concern in 2026, of course. The Trump administration’s latest National Security Strategy […]
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) recently argued that winning the technology race should not come at the expense of American households. Legislation like the Ratepayer Protection Act is needed to ensure that communities are not left paying for the additional electricity infrastructure required to power large technology facilities. The principle is straightforward: if you create additional […]
