Because the sources and targets of regulation are diverse, the language complex and often opaque, and the volume overwhelming, much regulatory activity escapes public notice and debate with little discussion of costs or alternative methods for achieving the same ends. Our immediate purpose is to provide information and analysis about specific issues. Our longer‐range goal is to make regulation as sensible, cost‐effective, and least restrictive as possible.
Regulation
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The Gray Wolf Is a Recovered Species, So Why Won’t the Feds Say So?
When species recover, the feds should remove them from the Endangered Species List. But that’s not how it often works. Jonathan Wood of the Property and Environment Research Center comments.
Federal Regulation from Trump to Biden
Tom Firey and Will Yeatman offer the soberest of sober assessments of the Trump regulatory record and a few thoughts on what’s in store from Team Biden.
Biden’s Anti‐Discrimination Order Is Executive Vaporware
Some executive orders please supporters—and troll adversaries—without delivering much in the way of policy change.
SpaceX’s Success Revives the Tradition of Private‐Sector Space Science
Like many other great advances in the field, it was not government‐funded.
Transportation Infrastructure in the United States
Massive investments in transportation infrastructure seem to draw support from across the political spectrum. These policies are often motivated by claims that our current infrastructure is crumbling or that such investments will spur economic growth. The available evidence does not support these claims.