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Love Wordle? You’ll hate the OAMA

The Power of Technology and Geothermal Energy

A “vehicle for antitrust change” picks up steam

The Biggest Inventions of the 2020s: Cancer Vaccines, Flying Cars, Space Travel, and More

Whiskey with a side of wildlife

Refocusing on legal work options is the next logical step for Biden on immigration enforcement

Will Rinehart on Broadband Infrastructure and Inclusion

The tech/innovation policy conversations we need

Workforce development and broadband spending

Endangered Species Act and Conservation

Americans’ attitudes toward tech and media

Lowman Henry with Josh Smith on Funding Immigration

Selling immigration visas to cover costs

Josh Smith on payments for immigrants

A better plan than giving $450,000 to each separated immigrant

California’s regulations are hindering insurance provided wildfire protections

William Rinehart Joins Todd Feinburg
Will Rinehart joins Todd Feinburg (WTIC) to discuss the congressional testimony from Facebook insider, what it means for the company, and the implications from the hearing. Listen to the interview below.

What can Florida learn from Arizona on immigration laws?

What does the whistleblowers testimony tell us about Facebook?

Why States Should Allow Psychologists to Prescribe Medication

Utah can be a national leader on licensing reform

Let in the Afghans who aided the US military

We Need to Build Our Way Out of This Mess

Charter Cities Podcast: Shaping a preferable economic future with Eli Dourado

Why Capitalists in Space Are Good for Americans’ Future
Nothing quite exposes differing views on innovation than billionaires launching their own rockets into space. As Blue Origin ascended, carrying Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, critics rose up against private space tourism efforts. They repeated all the same slogans as the week before when Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson took a trip. But the harshest critics […]

Policy, TFP, and airships
CGO Senior Fellow Eli Dourado joins Benjamin Reinhardt on the Idea Machines podcast to discuss how the sausage of technology policy is made, the relationship between total factor productivity and technological progress, airships, and more.

Utah A.G. Sean Reyes’ suit against Google Play makes no sense

What Would Breaking Up Big Tech Change?
