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Wildfires As a Wake-Up Call
This column was excerpted from Greenhut’s forthcoming booklet, “Protecting Cities from Wildfires: Improving California’s Land ...
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Smarter spending can solve our debt crisis and open new doors
Read Part 1 (Spending Less, Gaining More: Lessons from Canadian Debt Reduction) and Part 2  (New Zealand Cut Spending and ...
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Trump rolls out ‘Winning the AI Race’ action plan – Washington Examiner
That last directive is proving controversial even among some AI enthusiasts. Spence Purnell and Adam Thierer, of the R Street Institute think tank, warn about the practicality of certifying AI ...
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Senator Booker’s Blocking of Public Safety Legislation Comes When We Can Least Afford It
Less than 24 hours after New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan, Congress had a rare ...
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State Senate begins unlikely quest to ax income tax
Toward the end of last legislative session, there was increasing chatter about abolishing Georgia’s income tax. Lawmakers ...
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Congress Should Look to Georgia for Tips on Cleaning the Voter Rolls
Members of Congress are home in their districts for the month of August following an action-packed first half of 2025. On the ...
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U.K.’s Online Safety Act Censors the Internet—A Preview of U.S. Proposals
The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...
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Putting American AI Innovation First in Antitrust
Last week, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan,” which presents a largely positive vision for how the United ...
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Abused by the State: The Hidden Crisis Inside America’s Juvenile Detention System
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New Zealand Cut Spending—and Came Out Ahead
In the early 1980s, New Zealand’s economy was in serious trouble. Deficits were ballooning, unemployment was rising, and ...
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Is Mass Balance Accounting Good or Bad?
Introduction In energy and environmental policy, the utility that comes from product consumption (like a fuel) often entails ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: What happens when you freeze energy prices?
A number of political candidates who promote price freezes—also called price controls—in industries like housing have ...