The governance of online platforms is at the forefront of policy regulation due to the exponential rise in illegal content, hate speech, and cyberbullying. The European Union (EU), a leader in this space, kickstarted formal regulation for online content modera... More »
Lindsay Bayley is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member of the Parking Reform Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the impact of parking policy on climate change, equity, housing, and traffic. Lindsay is also the Progra... More »
On March 7th, 2023, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to empower the Department of Commerce to ban the popular short video app TikTok. Over the past two years, the Federal Government has beleaguered TikTok, owned by the China-based company ByteD... More »
Henry Grabar is the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. His book examines how parking shapes Americans’ lives through day-to-day interactions such as violence over a parking spot to its role in affordable housing development. Paved Paradi... More »
In February’s State of the Union Address, the economy took center stage with the arrival of President Biden’s federal budget proposal. At a time of soaring deficit, what was the President’s plan to lower the federal deficit? Raise taxes on the uber-wealthy.Cal... More »
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a series of updated regulations in 2020 and 2021 to protect tipped workers, including amendments to sections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). These regulations protected employee tips from employers and addre... More »
Since the beginning of 2023, the United States has seen over 100 mass shootings. In 2022, death by firearm in the United States became the leading cause of mortality among children and teens ages 0 to 18, surpassing motor vehicle collisions, suffocation, drown... More »
If you’re standing on any street corner in Chicago, there’s a one in three chance you’re standing in a TIF district. TIF, short for Tax Increment Financing, is a strategy to spur redevelopment in areas that are “blighted”, i.e., an area that has experienced si... More »
There are 122 federal prisons in the United States, housing approximately 145,302 incarcerated individuals, and it’s no secret that the federal prison system and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have been dogged by allegations of wrongdoing and exploitation. Those ... More »
After nearly 60 years, the protections established by Miranda v. Arizona are under attack. Miranda v. Arizona helped protect individuals under arrest; for the first time, police officers were required to educate arrestees about their rights and the protections... More »
In 2014, Facebook (now Meta) acquired two burgeoning social media firms, WhatsApp and Instagram, with no FTC or DOJ scrutiny. People celebrated the acquisitions and the lack of regulatory scrutiny. In the years since, the negative externalities from Meta’s mon... More »
A moral panic over the sanctity of children has bubbled up to the highest levels of U.S. politics. From schoolboards to state legislatures, conservative leaders and activists are mobilizing against anything they see as imperiling a sufficiently wholesome upbri... More »