The Senate passed landmark legislation Monday night intended to regulate the Wild West of college sports compensation and transfers, teeing up a vote in the House after the November midterm elections.
The maxim “Once bitten, twice shy” never seems to apply in politics. We don’t learn. An explosion of concern over the hurtling advance of artificial intelligence seems likely to follow the same pattern as previous panics, which goes like this: A big scare bursts upon the world; knowing little about it, government and other vested […]
California is in the midst of an ideologically driven economic suicide, and the state’s treatment of Paramount is on the verge of being another brutal blow against the state’s economy. California is one of several Democrat-run states holding Paramount hostage, attempting to block a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The impetus behind the Democratic antitrust […]
Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats to make regulating artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” in this year’s elections, but when it comes to what exactly he wants Democrats to do policy-wise, he appears to have no answers. Not that Republicans seem to have much of an AI agenda either. This Sunday, House […]
One of the more curious developments of the artificial intelligence revolution is that its most visible political enemy has turned out to be a windowless warehouse filled with computers. Data centers, once infrastructure that interested few outside the tech industry and planning commissions, are becoming objects of intense opposition worldwide. But they are an avatar […]
In my recent analysis of the Trump administration’s proposed $20 billion strategic Bitcoin reserve, I argued that anchoring a national treasury to seized digital assets introduces severe systemic risks to the U.S. dollar. The article ignited an immediate, highly charged debate. Much of the sharpest pushback came directly from my own friends, colleagues, and professional […]
Our nation’s major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot. In 2010, President Barack Obama told the 47-country Nuclear Security Summit, “Two […]
Washington’s renewable energy mandates are making its electricity so expensive that the Council of the District of Columbia explicitly exempted its government buildings from being required to pay the costs of the regulations. Why should municipal buildings be exempt from a mandate that it imposes on residents, businesses, and federal taxpayers? We don’t think they […]
For six years, President Donald Trump has been trying to fix a problem almost nobody in Washington wanted to talk about: The United States hands out congressional seats partly on the basis of people who have no legal right to be there. This week, his administration attempted a major overhaul of the United States census […]
Congress has returned from its August recess, but not for long. The House will have just four voting days before members leave Washington to campaign for the November midterm elections. The Senate will remain somewhat longer, but little legislation of broad national consequence is expected to clear Congress before Election Day. None of this is […]
A quarter-century has passed since the morning the world fractured. For the educators standing at the whiteboard today, a daunting demographic threshold has been crossed. Every single student sitting in a K-12 classroom has no lived memory of Sept. 11, 2001. To them, the thick black smoke pouring from the twin towers is not cultural […]
Washington has spent years debating how the United States should regulate cryptocurrency. But as digital assets move deeper into the American financial mainstream, another question is emerging in federal court: Who gets to own the language of crypto innovation? A new lawsuit brought by Unicoin against Uniswap Labs puts that question squarely before the courts. […]
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 […]
