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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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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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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 even formed a committee—the Senate Study Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s ...
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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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Top app spills Tea—and user verification IDs
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U.K.’s Online Safety Act Censors the Internet—A Preview of U.S. Proposals
The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...
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New Zealand Cut Spending—and Came Out Ahead
In the early 1980s, New Zealand’s economy was in serious trouble. Deficits were ballooning, unemployment was rising, and ...
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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 ...
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Why defunding the Election Assistance Commission may hurt election integrity
Americans want secure, trustworthy elections. Unfortunately, the president’s proposed budget envisions a substantial ...
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Abused by the State: The Hidden Crisis Inside America’s Juvenile Detention System
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Open-Source AI in America: A Roadmap to Safeguarding U.S. Innovation and National Security
Author Media Contact For general and media inquiries and to book our experts, please contact: [email protected] The Open-Source ...
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Putting American AI Innovation First in Antitrust
Last week, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan,” which presents a largely positive vision for how the United ...