Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.”
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Protecting Biden Administration Regulations from Regime Change and Skeptical Courts
As agencies race to put new regulations into final form, careful drafting can help insulate progressive rules against a skeptical judiciary.
Posted inMagazine
Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done on Regulation?
Trump launched a massive deregulation campaign that largely failed. Biden has effectively used rulemaking to advance his priorities.
Posted inLaw and Justice
This Will Be a Big Year for The Roberts Court’s Major Questions Doctrine
As administrations do in their final years, the Biden administration will produce a flurry of new rules and regulations in 2024. Enter the shapeshifting, ill-defined legal principle businesses and conservatives will use to hinder agency discretion.
Posted inLaw and Justice
As the Supreme Court Reconsiders “Chevron Deference,” Will Its Ruling Be Monumental or “Meh”?
Last month, the Supreme Court heard two cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce—each widely anticipated because the Court’s ruling on them could significantly reshape the federal judiciary’s relationship to the federal administrative bureaucracy. The issue in both is whether the Court should overrule, or at least narrow, a 40-year-old […]
Posted inEconomy
The OpenAI CEO is Out, But the Real Story is the Need for Regulation
Sam Altman aside, artificial intelligence is wonderful but threatening. It demands a robust government response, and that’s coming too slowly.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court Versus Health and Safety
How right-wing jurists can manipulate the Constitution to hobble federal regulators.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The Secret Shoppers Quietly Enforcing Federal Law
How normal Americans have become an invaluable tool for exposing corporate malfeasance.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Trump Acts Like a Populist. His Regulatory Record Suggests Otherwise.
The administration has consistently favored big businesses over average people.
