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TV: Domino Effects: Insurance after LA fires, immigration enforcement, sober spirits
This week, we look at the future of insurance in Los Angeles after devastating wildfires, President Trump’s economic argument for immigration enforcement, and the growing trend of non-alcoholic beer ...
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Biden Leaves Mixed Legacy On Criminal Justice Issues
Jillian Snider, an adjunct lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who served 13 years as an officer for the New York Police Department, said Biden largely fell short of delivering on many of ...
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Populism or Deregulation? What to Expect from Trump’s Financial Regulatory Agenda
President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated for a nonsequential second term on Jan. 20, 2025. Broad frustration among the ...
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‘People will be shocked’: Trump tests boundaries of presidency
But Jonathan Madison, who studies democracy and governance at the R Street Institute, a free-market research organization in Washington, said that Mr. Biden “used executive power in unprecedented ways ...
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R Street Testimony in Opposition to House Bill 2488 for Local Taxation of Nicotine Vapor Products in Virginia
Jeffrey S. Smith, Senior Fellow, Integrated Harm Reduction, R Street Institute R Street Testimony in Opposition to House Bill 2488: “Local tax authority; nicotine vapor products.” January 27th, 2025 ...
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Los Angeles wildfires exposed the failings of California’s leadership
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers are sure to lecture us again this session about the need to step up our efforts to ...
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R Street Testimony in Opposition to VA HB 2094: ‘High-Risk Artificial Intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties.’
Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, R Street Institute R Street Testimony in Opposition to HB 2094: “High-Risk Artificial Intelligence; development, deployment, and use; civil penalties.” January 27 ...
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Trump’s New AI Executive Order Begins Undoing Biden’s Bureaucratic Mess
This analysis is in response to breaking news and will be updated. Please contact [email protected] to speak with the author. On Thursday, President Trump signed a new executive order (EO) on “Removing ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: Are Trump’s Executive Orders a Big Deal for Climate Change?
Washington, D.C. is in a tizzy over President Donald J. Trump’s rescission of a slew of policies implemented under former ...
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Testimony in support of SB 119, repealing Montana’s ROFR requirement for electric transmission
Josiah Neeley, Senior Fellow, Energy, R Street Institute Testimony in Support of SB 119Committee on Energy, Technology, and Federal RelationsJanuary 21, 2025 Chairman and members of the committee, My ...
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Steven Greenhut – How California’s Insurance Crisis Could Be Double Whammy for Wildfire Victims
Steven Greenhut joins us to discuss how California’s ongoing insurance crisis could be a double whammy for Southern California wildfire victims looking to rebuild. He gives the history of the state’s ...
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Think-tank leaders flag AI policies that could form ‘techlash’ revival in 2025
Lewis spoke during a Jan. 21 webinar the industry-backed Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hosted to discuss “The Worst Tech Policies of 2024: How the New Administration and Congress ...