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Congress Should Look to Georgia for Tips on Cleaning the Voter Rolls
Members of Congress are home in their districts for the month of August following an action-packed first half of 2025. On the ...
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TV: Mazen Saleh on the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act
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 ...
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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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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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Trump’s ‘Woke AI’ Efforts Should Focus on the Real Problem
On July 23, the Trump administration released a major artificial intelligence (AI) policy blueprint titled “Winning the Race: ...
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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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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 ...
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Top app spills Tea—and user verification IDs
This analysis is in response to breaking news and it has been updated. Please contact pr@rstreet.org to speak with the author ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: What happens when you freeze energy prices?
A number of political candidates who promote price freezes—also called price controls—in industries like housing have ...
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Abused by the State: The Hidden Crisis Inside America’s Juvenile Detention System
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Is Mass Balance Accounting Good or Bad?
Introduction In energy and environmental policy, the utility that comes from product consumption (like a fuel) often entails ...