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Balancing First Amendment Rights and Youth Protection | Age and Access in the Social Media Era
Vera Eidelman, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and Shoshana Weissmann, Digital Director and Fellow, R Street Institute sit down with Semafor.
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Low-Energy Fridays: The Return of Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island (TMI), a nuclear power plant (NPP) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is slated to reopen in 2028. The plant ...
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Last Gasp of ‘Progressive DA’ Movement?
As Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón heads toward defeat, it’s time to assess what went wrong with this ideological ...
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Hurricane Milton, Helene: Is the home insurance industry doomed?
Jerry Theodorou, who leads insurance research at the R Street Institute, a free market think tank, noted that insurers in California face regulations that limit their ability to increase rates and for ...
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Looking Outside Our Orbit: How Satellites Can Reconnect Us in Crises
Hurricane Helene slammed into the southeastern United States at the end of September, leaving in its wake utter destruction ...
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Explainer Series Intro: Rural Communities Need Harm Reduction, Too
Overdose deaths in the United States have claimed more than 100,000 lives annually in recent years. While the vast majority ...
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R Street Testimony in Opposition of the Belchertown Board of Health Regulations Restricting ...
Jeffrey S. Smith, Senior Fellow, Integrated Harm Reduction, R Street Institute R Street Testimony in Opposition of the Belchertown Board of Health Regulations Restricting the Sale of Reduced Risk ...
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Illinois Shows How Bail Can Work Better
Fear still fuels the bail reform debate, but new data from Illinois show that holding on to cash bail may make communities ...
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What does the Google antitrust case mean for cybersecurity?
This analysis is in response to breaking news and will be updated. Please contact pr@rstreet.org to speak with the author. The Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust case against Google has made ...
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Toxic plume: Did government ‘winner’ turn out to be a loser?
The fires are out at the recently incinerated BioLab facility that left large swaths of metro Atlanta paralyzed, but the ...
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Can happy hour attract people downtown again?
A slew of high-profile drunk driving accidents in the 1980s, such as Barry’s, made lawmakers concerned that happy hours encouraged people to drink more, thus increasing the risk of injuries and death ...