Dario Amodei, CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a guest essay in The New York Times Thursday arguing against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation. Amodei argues that a patchwork of regulations would be better than no regulation whatsoever. Skepticism is warranted whenever the head of an incumbent firm calls for […]
When President Donald Trump announced a sweeping set of tariffs on nearly all imports, he promised that April 2—what the White House dubbed “Liberation Day”—would “forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn.” That’s not the way Michele Derrigo-Barnes sees it. Trump’s tariffs are “killing” small American manufacturers like hers, she tells Reason. As CEO […]
When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China’s rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue collar communities devastated. Known now as the “China shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, culminating in sweeping tariffs including Trump’s controversial “Liberation Day” duties. Yet we continue […]
Washington, D.C. will pause the implementation of a measure that is set to eliminate the city’s tipped wage system, as the yearslong debate over the law’s adverse impacts continues to divide the District’s left-leaning lawmakers. The D.C. Council on Tuesday voted 8–4 to pump the brakes on Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot referendum that mandated […]