Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private ...

Kent’s career in higher education policy renders him ideally suited to confront the unique challenges the Department of Education faces today.

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

The Supreme Court is not threatening the Federal Reserve’s independence. In fact, the justices keep telling us the very opposite.

From an economic perspective, unintended consequences turn tidy government plans into costly messes. Such interventions often create economic distortions that government planners couldn't foresee ...

The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...

Harold Furchtgott-Roth is a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Previously, he worked as chief economist for the House ...

Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down to chat about the recently-released White House AI Action Plan. Should American AI policy be in pursuit of unchallenged dominance in the field? What kinds of ...

The Trump administration should lead the way towards a global market-oriented innovation ecosystem where both American firms and European firms can thrive.

Last week, a colleague of mine sent me a copy of an email that they had received from ClimateBrief, a UK-based advocacy journalism group. The email asked for examples of how their published research ...

As these AI tools continue to evolve, economists and policy analysts who master prompt engineering and integrate these technologies into their workflows will find themselves better equipped to ...