One hundred days into Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, and the evidence is already mounting that it has failed. When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed the Online Safety Amendment...
Earlier this year, the federal government rejected a merger plan to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. A refusal wasn’t issued because the deal is bad for consumers, rather, it didn’t...
While the instinct to regulate is an appropriate one, the tool of prohibition is a costly one. The lesson of the 2016 fight to keep kratom off the DEA’s scheduling...
The legacy kratom manufacturing industry is reaching for the same tactics that almost banned their products and had their consumers criminalized a decade ago. There’s a unique twist in the...
When authorities moved to schedule kratom, they triggered a public health scare, not a safety fix. When the federal government attempted to use its regulatory authority to schedule the popular...
When authorities moved to schedule kratom, they triggered a public health scare, not a safety fix. When the federal government attempted to use its regulatory authority to schedule the popular...
The showdown between the Department of War (Defense) and Anthropic over a government contract reveals a lot about American society’s relationship with technology and its governing institutions. For one, we’re...
“The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge...
When a tragedy occurs, the instinct to assign blame is understandable. Fingers are pointed, rhetoric gets heated, and calls for accountability mount. However, we cannot allow these knee-jerk reactions to...
Letter sent to the Utah State Senate: TO: Utah State Senators February 24, 2026 As a nonpartisan consumer advocacy group that fights for consumer choice and innovative legal reforms, we...
Regulations ruined ride-hailing, Vienna edition. Since 2021 in Austria, all ride-sharing, ride-hailing, and “digital dispatch” apps (services like Uber and Bolt) are regulated as taxi services. For anyone to drive...
Are the products you’re buying BPA-free? Nut-free? How about GMO-free? If the European Union (E.U.) has its way, we’ll soon be adding a new label to our shopping list vocabulary:...
