Policy

To Protect Free Speech, Congress Should Consider Alternatives to Banning TikTok

The powers being sought by Congress represent the most radical options on the table.

Defund the Speech Police

Both nationalists and progressives keep running into the wall that is the First Amendment.

Optimism in a Time of Doomsaying

American abundance, the Constitution, and today’s technological frontiers are all cause for celebration.

I Make Great Hot Sauce. State Regulations Ensure You’ll Never Taste It.

‘Cottage food’ restrictions mean less choice and less entrepreneurship for no good reason.

Why ‘Intellectual Diversity’ Requirements on Campus Won’t Work

A DEI proposal with a right-leaning twist will still hurt academic freedom.

Gig Workers Face New Rules

Updated regulations governing independent contractors took effect this week.

There Is No Labor Shortage

It’s mostly the sectors dominated by low-wage jobs that are struggling.

The Clock TikToks Down

Could the latest congressional push to restrict the popular app succeed?

The SAT at the Crossroads

Standardized tests can identify bright kids from disadvantaged backgrounds—if that’s what colleges want to use them for.

The Post-Filibuster Age

It’s coming—but maybe not as soon as we expect.

Trivial Pursuits

Do we need ‘consumer protection’ policies on burger prices and bags of potato chips?

College or Trade School? How About Both?

Leaving behind the broken ‘either-or’ debate over post-secondary education.

Slate Publishes Gun-Control Fiction

Bump stocks aren’t machine guns, and good luck trying to fire an AR-style rifle 800 times in a minute.

Alabama’s Mad Dash to Offer IVF Clinics Blanket Immunity

There are risks to lawmaking in a fit of political desperation amid a media firestorm.

Ten Myths Sabotaging Social Security Reform

Distorting history and underestimating the severity of the problem only increases the chance of insolvency.

The Gemini Debacle Is Just the Beginning

With tough questions about AI alignment up in the air, politics is getting in the way.