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On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Dan McLaughlin. In their discussion, Juliette and Dan cover the national capital, Washinton D.C., its history, its potential statehood, and the alternatives to statehood.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Brent Skorup. In their discussion, Juliette and Brent cover drones, flying cars, self-driving cars, and the future of technology.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Peter Van Doren. In their discussion, Juliette and Peter cover the value of life, the use and misuse of science in public policy, and how both these factors impact our response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
*This is part 2 of a 2 part series on micromobility after COVID. Read part 1 here. Among its widespread impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we get around. One of the biggest changes has been a decrease in the number of people who use public transportation. With people seeking to avoid exposure to COVID-19, they […]
Senior Research Fellow Will Rinehart discusses “Data Dividend” and the growing trend of legislative proposals creating “data ownership” rights on IAB.Policy Podcast.
During the Covid-19 crisis, courts all across the country have severely restricted access to the criminal justice system. As a result, an already inefficient and painfully slow process has ground to a near halt and only the most severe cases are heard, and even then, many of those are postponed until social distancing requirements begin to ease.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Thomas Hazlett. In their discussion, Juliette and Thomas cover the Federal Communications Commission, Section 203 of the Communications Decency Act, and the ways in which government intervenes in technology.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Thomas Hazlett. In their discussion, Juliette and Thomas cover the Federal Communications Commission, Section 203 of the Communications Decency Act, and the ways in which government intervenes in technology.
*Part 1 of a 2 part series on micromobility after COVID Ascities struggle to return to normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a looming fear that traffic will be worse than ever. To prevent the impending Carmageddon, cities around the world are backing micromobility. E-scooters, E-bikes, bikes, mopeds, and other forms […]
In what would typically be the start of a busy tourist season, America’s national parks are starting to slowly reopen in the wake of COVID-19.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest George Will. In their discussion, Juliette and George cover conservatism, the current state of congress, the importance of a dynamic economy, and baseball.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Baylen Linnekin. In their discussion, Juliette and Baylen cover the unintended consequences which result from the United State’s regulations on food.
Sanctuary protects vulnerable people More and more cities and states are adopting sanctuary policies. The extent of sanctuary’s spread is difficult to know, yet it’s clear from debates at city halls and state legislatures across the country that the idea is becoming more prevalent. How sanctuary policies work varies from place to place. At root, sanctuary limits how local […]
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Deirdre McCloskey. In their discussion, Juliette and Deirdre cover talks to us about her ‘how we got rich’, modern liberalism, and her sex change.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Andrea O’Sullivan. In their discussion, Juliette and Andrea cover technological innovation, cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin.
There’s never a dull moment with Donald J. Trump. Twitter’s fact check of our esteemed President last week reignited a wonky debate over a law called Section 230, a longstanding pillar of U.S. Internet policy, as Trump and his allies such as Sens. Rubio and Hawley take aim at the provision. 47 USC 230 was originally […]
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Clark Neily. In their discussion, Juliette and Clark cover recent police abuse events, how we got here, and what to do about it.
President Trump is, by all accounts, the first social media president. His use of these platforms allowed him to side-step political insiders, win the GOP nomination, and find his way into the oval office. The megaphone that sites like Facebook and Twitter have provided the president is unprecedented, and announcements traditionally made from rose gardens […]
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Ed Glaeser, she is joined by guest Ed Glaeser. In their discussion, Juliette and Ed cover the current housing crisis, potential solutions, and the advantages brought on by urban life.
U.S. companies are succeeding where the federal government has failed Inthe months since Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez released the Green New Deal (GND), Democratic presidential hopefuls have been promoting their own climate proposals. Some have thrown their full support behind the Green New Deal, while others like former Representative Beto O’Rourke have unveiled plans that take a more […]
Screens are winning, and that’s not a bad thing In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the country are working from home at unprecedented levels. Although remote work has been on the rise for some time now, up until the pandemic, the trend was relatively slow. Gallup found that from 2012 to 2016, the percentage […]
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Randy Barnett. In their discussion, Juliette and Randy cover constitutional law, originalism, and his new book with Josh Blackman, An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest David French. In their discussion, Juliette and David cover freedom of speech, especially on college campuses, and the freedom of religion.
Lowman Henry of American Radio Journal talks with senior research fellow, William Rinehart, about the promise and pitfalls of contact tracing. Will notes that application based contact tracing should only be considered as a supplement to manual contact tracing.
State-level analysis and implications for future aid packages he COVID-19 pandemic continues to create an unprecedented effect on the economy, increasing unemployment to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Many jobs have been lost, and claims for unemployment insurance have surpassed by far the all-time high. In fact, as figure 1 shows, over the […]
This week Apple and Google rolled out a new application programming interface (API), which is meant to help in the fight against COVID. The “Exposure Notification API” gives public health officials and other selected developers the ability to create new mobile applications that would alert users if they came into contact with someone positively tagged as […]
Apple and Google have now released their update to their mobile operating systems to include a new capability for COVID-19 exposure notification.
Senior Research Fellow Eli Dourado discusses how to make America innovate again on Political Economy Podcast with James Pethokoukis.
On this week’s episode of The Great Antidote podcast with Juliette Sellgren, she is joined by guest Michael Strain. In their discussion, Juliette and Michael cover the American Dream today and everything about populism! Michael Strain is the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise […]
And its benefits to society Even before he was elected, President Trump campaigned on anti-immigration issues. And since he took office, Trump has fought immigration more than any other recent President. He has made out immigrants to be “bad hombres” — criminals who are disrupting the American way of life. His efforts to reduce immigration include building a border […]