A fight is underway in Congress over an amendment to the “big beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that would put a 10-year moratorium on state laws governing certain uses of artificial intelligence. The amendment, proposed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is broad and concerning to multiple stakeholders, including 36 State Attorneys General who ...
Today, both producers and consumers are increasingly aware that every opportunity and convenience afforded by digital commerce comes with an unwritten warning label that scams abound—from counterfeiting to price gouging to malware attacks. Thus, in 2024, Digital Citizens Alliance independently launched the Responsible Markets Initiative (RMI) to research existing and emerging harms in secondary markets. Its first report on digital ...
Since the election, I have been so certain these events were coming that I almost pre-drafted this post, but I didn’t want to be a jinx. Then when it did happen, I hardly knew what to say. Every day, we are confronted with evidence that the only agenda of Trump 2.0 is wanton destruction. I am increasingly convinced that Trump ...
Two headlines in the first week of this month said a lot about the United States as an “innovative” nation right now. One story announced that the first driverless semi-trucks are on the highway covering normal long-haul routes, and the second reported that the final shipments of pre-tariff goods from China were arriving at U.S. ports. Leave it to contemporary ...
The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in Mahmoud et al. v. Taylor—a case brought by three families petitioning, on First Amendment Free Exercise grounds, to have their young children opt out of class time involving age-appropriate books that depict homosexual characters. The families—one Muslim, the other two Catholic—are not seeking to ban the books or to amend ...
