Time to clip the wings of the car crash lawyers
Imagine renting a U-Haul to move your stuff cross-country after accepting your dream job. After the stress of the move, the awful packing of boxes, and rolling down the highway, you end up in a fender bender. Every American knows the process from there on is tedious: accident reports, police, insurance companies, and in the […]
Europe’s Tech Moment: A Conversation with Viva Tech’s François Bitouzet
When you ask François Bitouzet, Managing Director of Viva Tech, where Europe stands in the global technology race, he refuses to play along with the prevailing pessimism. “We are better than sometimes we think we are,” he told the ConsEUmer podcast, pushing back against the wave of “Europe bashing” that has come to dominate discussions […]
What to Make of the OpenAI KOSA Endorsement
This week, Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal announced that OpenAI, one of the country’s leading AI firms, was endorsing the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). This announcement came ahead of a hearing they held later in the week to review recent decisions in cases against social media companies in New […]
The Roundup case that could end the trial lawyer playbook
For years, litigators, activists and scientific experts have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the litany of local lawsuits related to the herbicide glyphosate. As the court deliberates on the case Monsanto v. Durnell, they will soon get their wish. The case is nominally about pesticide labels. The question lurking behind […]
Colorado can’t afford to shut out consumers from credit card rewards
Lawmakers in Colorado want to make life more affordable, but their latest credit card bill will do the complete opposite. The bill, SB26-134, passed by the House and Senate of the Colorado General Assembly, prohibits card networks from charging fees on the sales tax portion of a transaction. While this may sound good on the […]
Why Trump is right to protect “natural 7-OH”
In an Oval Office press conference in his usual flair yesterday, President Donald Trump vowed to “approve” natural 7-OH: “We’re looking very seriously at natural 7-OH and getting that approved, natural 7-OH. And we’ll take a look at that very strongly. I think us and everybody, we’re looking to see if we can do something […]
The 7-OH Panic Doesn’t Survive Contact with the Data
After Americans consumed roughly 2 billion servings of 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) since 2023, the FDA’s adverse event database logged about 100 reports. That works out to one event per 20 million servings, fewer than the agency receives about ordinary soap. Yet the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary now wants the DEA to list 7-OH alongside heroin and […]
340B Hospitals Need Transparency, Not Blank Checks
The National Consumers League’s new issue brief is a useful and uncomfortable reminder that a program created to help vulnerable patients can drift far from its mission. Its core finding is simple: many 340B hospitals, despite benefiting from discounted outpatient drugs, are more likely than non-340B hospitals to maintain aggressive medical debt collection policies. That […]
Iowa is about to put the brakes on autonomous vehicles & consumers will pay the price
Iowa has always been a state that embraces innovation, from precision agriculture to advanced manufacturing. But when it comes to the future of transportation, policymakers in Des Moines are at risk of sending the opposite message. Two bills moving through the Iowa House would significantly delay the deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state. While […]
Protecting America means fixing FISA surveillance
Throughout April, Congress stared down a deadline everyone knew was coming. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a spy tool that enables our intelligence agencies to collect information on non-U.S. persons, was set to expire. Despite years of documented abuses and a growing bipartisan demand for reform, talks came to a standstill, […]
The Erosion of Liberty- Part 1
The Erosion of Liberty is a series of short blogs aimed to address the latest UK Government policies that infringe on individual freedom, personal agency and choice in markets. In this part, Mike Salem, UK Country Associate, tackles the recently passed Tobacco and Vapes Bill The concept of individual liberty is increasingly under threat across […]
Briefing Capitol Hill Staff on Kratom and 7-OH
On April 22, 2026, CCC convened a congressional briefing on kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) regulation, co-hosted with the Reason Foundation and the Cato Institute. The event drew a strong cross-section of two dozen Member office staffers and public policy advocates working on drug policy and consumer access issues. The Event The panel paired policy and […]