Scholar Commentary

The American West is known for its National Parks, yet grasslands remain largely unprotected. This for-profit and non-profit are changing that.

Contributing scholar Daniel Chand discusses his research on ICE's IMAGE program in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

H.R.3684 – the House Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – includes a $65B kicker for broadband networks, Will Rinehart joins the High Tech Forum podcast to discuss.

Getting government out of the way of innovation in many cases simply isn’t happening. Will Rinehart says the people who need to do that hard work are distracted.

How should success be measured in state-led efforts to provide rural broadband? Will Rinehart discusses with the Cato Daily Podcast

Research Director, Megan Jenkins, joins the Political Perspectives podcast hosted by Ryan Smith to discuss conservation and the Endangered Species Act

Senior Research Fellow, Will Rinehart, talks to C-SPAN's Washington Journal and callers about our latest tech poll.

Josh T. Smith joins Lowman Henry on American Radio Journal to discuss a recent op-ed in The Hill on selling immigration visas

Research Manager, Josh T. Smith, joins The Lars Larson Show to discuss his recent op-ed in The Hill on selling immigration visas.

Josh Smith joins Freedom Works Radio to discuss his recent op-ed in The Hill on selling immigrant visas to cover the effects of globalization

In an op-ed for The Hill, Josh T. Smith plots a way forward for helping both separated immigrants and the U.S.

California homeowners face the highest wildfire risk in our country’s history. What can be done to address the issue?

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.

In an op-ed for the Orlando Sentinel, Josh T. Smith shows that Florida's hardline approach to immigration policy may actually backfire.

Will Rinehart joins The Lars Larson show to discuss a congressional testimony from the Facebook insider and what it means for the company.

Five states have made it possible for psychologists to prescribe medication. What has been the affect on suicide in these states?

Utah Governor Spencer Cox ordered a review of the state’s occupational licensing laws. What does that mean and how can it help Utahn consumers.

President Biden announced Tuesday that the withdrawal of all American citizens and military will be completed by Aug. 31. But what about our Afghan allies?

What would it take to become a nation that builds? In an guest essays for The New York Times, senior reseach fellow Eli Dourado explains.

Senior Research Fellow, Eli Dourado joins the Charter Cities Podcast to give an outline of how we can increase productivity.

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 […]

  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.

The app store shouldn’t be treated as if it were a dangerous monopoly, because it isn’t.

CGO's Chris Koopman Joins Derek Bambauer, Sally Hubbard, and David McLaughlin, on Bloomberg Law's UnChecked Podcast.

Will Rinehart joins Boyd Matheson on Inside Sources to discuss the recent lawsuit against google led by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes.

In January of this year, Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s revealed his first executive order calling for state agencies to review all professional licensing requirements. Learn more on the process and reforms here. In June, we teamed up with the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis (MEIEQA) at the University of Utah to […]

Congress sees fit to break down many of the platforms that have kept our small businesses thriving when it felt like the whole world was coming down around us.

Dr. Ed Timmons of Saint Francis University and Contributing Scholar at the Center for Growth and Opportunity joins KSL's Boyd Matheson on Inside Sources to discuss his recommendations for occupational licensing reform in Utah.

Mia Love joins KSL's Boyd Matheson on the Inside Sources show to discuss her new and exciting role as the National Outreach Director for the CGO.

CGO Senior Research Fellow Will Rinehart joins Lars Larson to discuss the recent decisions by the Biden administration regarding the social media entity 'TikTok.'