Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process (Former members, former staff and other experts)
Executive Summary: Change the Rules to Give Substantial Bipartisan Majorities Greater Access to the Floor. Read More
Human Rights
The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda (Daron Acemoglu)
Judging by the current paradigm in the technology industry, we cannot rule out the worst of all possible worlds: none of the transformative potential of AI, but all of the labor displacement, misinformation, and manipulation. But it’s not too late to change course. BOSTON – These are uncertain and confusing times. Not only are we …
The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It (Yanis Varoufakis)
Western power is as strong as ever. What has changed is that the combination of socialism for financiers, collapsing prospects for the bottom 50%, and the surrender of our minds to Big Tech has given rise to overweening Western elites with little use for the last century’s value system. ATHENS – A motley crew of …
War and International Politics (John Mearsheimer)
A video from the NDISC Seminar Series. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues …
Determining America’s Role in the World: Preserving Peace and Freedom (Hoover Institution)
Hoover Institution scholars offered practical and deeply informed policy analyses of international affairs in the turbulent year that was 2024, continuing the Institution’s tradition of advancing the study and practice of national security. The 2024 election brought additional focus to the question of what America’s proper role in the world ought to be, and Hoover …
Montana Supreme Court affirms decision in historic youth climate case (Micah Drew and Blair Miller)
Limit on analysis of greenhouse gas emissions is unconstitutional, court rules.The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial, affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment” while revoking two Montana statutes. The 70-page decision, authored by Chief Justice …
Generative AI and Political Power (Eugene Volokh)
As people come to rely on AI tools to answer questions, they will likely use those tools to answer political questions as well. The answers that the AI companies choose to provide, the author argues, may thus subtly but substantially influence public attitudes and, therefore, elections—especially to the extent Big Tech has been shifting from …
Misunderstanding AI’s Democracy Problem (Nathaniel Persily)
Undue panic over AI could harm democracy more than AI itself. The author suggests that exaggerating AI’s effects might undermine trust in all media, posing a greater threat than isolated disinformation incidents. He concludes that a democratic future for AI requires transparency, accountability, and significant public investment to guide technological development. Artificial intelligence amplifies the …
AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax (John H. Cochrane)
The author argues that law and regulation have never diagnosed and prevented social, political, and economic ills of new technology. AI is no different. AI regulation poses a greater threat to democracy than AI, as governments are anxious to use regulation to censor information. Free competition in civil society, media, and academia will address any …