From the Cover
A New “Fresh Hell” for Surprise Medical Bills
Five years after the federal No Surprises Act, its arbitration system is driving up everyone’s premiums.
Behind the Issue
Unintended Consequences
The Podcast of Regulation
U.S. carbon emissions have fallen dramatically since their peak in the late 2000s. What explains the decline? In this episode of Unintended Consequences from the Cato Institute, Paul and Peter explore how America’s fracking boom, the shift from coal to natural gas, and expanding liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets helped reduce emissions.
Drawing on Lipford and Yandle’s recent article in Regulation magazine, “Can ‘Golden Straitjackets’ Deliver Good Environmental News,” they examine the environmental and geopolitical benefits of America’s energy transformation, the costs of Germany’s retreat from nuclear power, and how falling solar energy costs are making solar power more accessible.
Features
The New Mercantilism’s Old Mistake
Fear of China has revived the case for protectionism, which rests on a collectivist, instead of a liberal-individualist, view of trade.
The Unconstitutional Compact to Nullify the Electoral College
The NPVIC violates the basic principles and simple text of the US Constitution.
What Happens After Sunset?
A half-century of state sunset laws indicates which models work, which do not, and which are extraneous.
AI: How Safe Is Safe Enough?
Risk assessment of artificial intelligence using proportionality and foresight, not government overregulation, maximizes benefits and minimizes risks.
Comment on “AI: How Safe Is Safe Enough?”
AI has become the new villain in many policy narratives that focus only on its potential downsides rather than on the benefits it is already delivering.
For the Record
Briefly Noted
Final Word
Politicians, Markets, and Cheap Food
Product recalls, once the province of Detroit automakers, are now as common in leafy greens as vitamin K.
