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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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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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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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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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R Street suggests path for ‘navigating’ open-source AI debate over security versus innovation
The R Street Institute is offering policymakers an alternative to “all-or-nothing” approaches in the enduring open- versus closed-source artificial intelligence debate, calling for federal guidelines ...
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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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The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
Shoshana Weissmann, the director of digital media at the R Street Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, told me that these regulations might superficially seem similar to a liquor store or a ...
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In AI We Trust? Ep. 11: Adam Thierer on AI, Innovation & Tech Policy
In this episode of In AI We Trust?, cohosts Miriam Vogel and Nuala O’Connor are joined by Adam Thierer, resident senior fellow @ R Street’s Tech & Innovation team. Adam weighs in on the Trump ...
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TV: Mazen Saleh on the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act
Mazen Saleh, Integrated Harm Reduction Senior Policy Director at the R Street Institute, discussed the recently signed Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. See ...
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Organizations Seek Public Input to Energy Tax Credit Modifications
August 4, 2025 Treasury Secretary Scott BessentU.S. Department of the Treasury1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20220 Commissioner Billy LongInternal Revenue Service (IRS)1111 Constitution ...
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August Spotlight on Criminal Justice: The Alcatraz Revival No One Asked For
When President Donald J. Trump’s advisors recently floated the idea of reopening Alcatraz as a functioning prison, it was—as with many things in the administration these days—hard to tell whether they ...