SACRAMENTO—The “(bad word) your feelings crowd” is an oddly sensitive lot, as these folks are triggered by innocuous slights. As an editor, I appreciate concern about typesetting. I just never ...

President Donald J. Trump has doubled down on his fiery rhetoric around crime in American cities, now targeting Chicago after ...

President Donald J. Trump has issued two new executive orders that he says will “end cashless bail to protect Americans.” One ...

SACRAMENTO—Political debates have always been asinine, at least as long as I’ve been watching “show business for ugly people.

Based on remarks delivered before the Congressional Institute on August 5, 2025] We stand at the threshold of the next great technological revolution. Artificial intelligence (AI)—supercharged by ...

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Kids who are incarcerated are less likely to finish high school and more likely to end up behind bars as adults, research shows. So, what works to protect and enhance public safety while holding youth ...

The political economy of AI is now tilting the other way. Adam Thierer from R Street Institute has long contrasted a “permissionless innovation” ethos with precautionary default, arguing that unless a ...

R Street Institute’s Lisel Petis, Policy Director for Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, talked about the Trump administration’s efforts to end cashless bail and implement other pretrial justice ...

Aug. 29 marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Disaster response in the United States has changed greatly in the past two decades, but many signs ...

Shoshana Weissmann (R Street) discusses the disastrous Online Safety Act, the growth of censorship in the UK, and more. Topics include: – Protect the children, they said . . .– The SpongeBob videos ...

The free-market R Street Institute says a House bill on autonomous commercial vehicles would overcome a patchwork of state regulation that’s inhibiting deployment of artificial intelligence-powered ...