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Out on Washington? Try DC!
September 16, 2026
A satirical love letter to Washington, DC — the majority-minority city of go-go, world-class food, and old neighborhoods hiding behind the political capital.
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Let the Chips Fall...
September 16, 2026
A Model of Data Center Moratoriums
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Electric Kool-Aid Policy Test
September 14, 2026
A firsthand account of how a Right to Try law, a hemp rulemaking, and a psychedelic-medicine bubble intersected across one policy career.
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Going Native
September 9, 2026
A Washington veteran's field notes from a first encounter with the AI safety world
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The CRA and Its Discontents
September 5, 2026
A Harvard Law Review blog essay claims the Congressional Review Act is a one-way deregulatory ratchet. The data and the statute say otherwise.
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No One Knows What Regulatory Capture Means
September 2, 2026
Tech advocates invoke regulatory capture like a magic spell. Stigler would like a word about what it actually means.
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The Ever-Shifting Goalposts in AI Policy Arguments
September 1, 2026
The case for federal AI preemption keeps changing shape. 84 state bills later, apparently no one's actually read them.
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Society Made a Risk Tradeoff Without Knowing It
August 25, 2026
The gain-of-function oversight story is a cautionary tale for AI. Expert consensus buys scientific credibility, never political legitimacy.