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SACRAMENTO—I grew up in the 1970s in and around one of the “safest” big cities in the United States, Philadelphia. That might ...
This column was excerpted from Greenhut’s forthcoming booklet, “Protecting Cities from Wildfires: Improving California’s Land ...
That last directive is proving controversial even among some AI enthusiasts. Spence Purnell and Adam Thierer, of the R Street Institute think tank, warn about the practicality of certifying AI ...
Read Part 1 (Spending Less, Gaining More: Lessons from Canadian Debt Reduction) and Part 2  (New Zealand Cut Spending and ...
Shoshana Weissmann, the director of digital media at the R Street Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, told me that these regulations might superficially seem similar to a liquor store or a ...
In this episode of In AI We Trust?, cohosts Miriam Vogel and Nuala O’Connor are joined by Adam Thierer, resident senior fellow @ R Street’s Tech & Innovation team. Adam weighs in on the Trump ...
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 ...
America’s system of representative government faces a dire threat. Both major parties are openly racing to redraw congressional maps mid-decade, purely for partisan gain. This gambit undermines the ...
Less than 24 hours after New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan, Congress had a rare ...
What if the root cause of America’s polarization isn’t just anger or partisanship — but the loss of a skill we’ve stopped practicing? On this episode, Nic Dunn speaks with R Street Institute VP of ...