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 ...

Less than 24 hours after New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan, Congress had a rare ...

What if the root cause of America’s polarization isn’t just anger or partisanship — but the loss of a skill we’ve stopped practicing? On this episode, Nic Dunn speaks with R Street Institute VP of ...

Toward the end of last legislative session, there was increasing chatter about abolishing Georgia’s income tax. Lawmakers even formed a committee—the Senate Study Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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On July 23, the Trump administration released a major artificial intelligence (AI) policy blueprint titled “Winning the Race: ...

Americans want secure, trustworthy elections. Unfortunately, the president’s proposed budget envisions a substantial ...

Last week, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan,” which presents a largely positive vision for how the United ...

In the early 1980s, New Zealand’s economy was in serious trouble. Deficits were ballooning, unemployment was rising, and ...

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...