1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (191+ words) The acid test of responsible regulation should be the efficacy of the policy, not its retail political appeal. Political courage requires putting social media age-gating proposals through proportionate policy analysis rather than profiting on the political popularity of imperfect laws....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (232+ words) Voluntary legal settlements involve compromises by plaintiffs and defendants. No party gets everything it originally wanted or sought to forestall. Advocacy groups with mission-driven interests in a case’s outcome rarely are satisfied. The threat of litigation against Google and TikTok,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (265+ words) Wendell Berry just passed at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky. He was 92. I never met him, though I wish I had. The tributes and memorials to Berry are just beginning to come out, and his legacy will be felt…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1837+ words) Below is a lightly edited and abridged transcript of our discussion. You can listen to this and other episodes of Explain to Shane on AEI.org and subscribe via your preferred listening platform. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (433+ words) When my son was three, we packed the car on a cold fall day and drove to Philadelphia from New York. It was the first time I had a chance to take him to my hometown and show him a…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (484+ words) New architectural improvements could change how frontier AI models think, with lasting consequences for the security of digital infrastructure. Last night, The Information reported that OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model uses a technique called “recurrent depth.” The story immediately generated some…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (305+ words) When Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in June, the case captured headlines in major newspapers across the country. That wasn’t surprising. Regarding harms, the complaint alleges numerous ones, including “cognitive decline or atrophy…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (84+ words) Read more at Space News. Todd Harrison, Senior Fellow What It Takes to Mobilize for War BY ON 27 Apr 26 Defense and Aerospace Report BY Todd Harrison ON 24 Apr 26 AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Working Paper Series The fiscal year 2027 defense…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (495+ words) A good friend of mine was a leading voice in South Korean education policy. He served a stint as president of one of Korea’s most prestigious national universities. More than once he shared with me the difficulties he faced as…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (352+ words) The storm clouds hovering above public and private universities in the United States are neither divine judgement nor a day of reckoning. Rather, they signal a wave of uncharted policies and practices institutions must learn to navigate or risk being…...