On May 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized four flavored e-cigarette pods—including the agency’s ...

Between roughly 7500 and 5600 BCE, thousands of people lived at a settlement called Çatalhöyük in what is now Turkey. Although often described as an early city, it has little in common with urban ...

Few energy issues are as top-of-mind as transmission policy for Congress, the federal executive, and the states. Transmission ...

May 6, 2026 Dear Members of Congress, We commend President Trump’s decision to issue an additional 90-day suspension of the ...

Smoking still kills nearly half a million Americans each year. And while overdose deaths have come down from their peak, they ...

Dear Comptroller Gould, On behalf of our organizations and the members they represent, we write to support your office’s moves to preempt the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act under federal law ...

There are few things that President Donald Trump loves more than gold-plated furnishings and seeing his name and face emblazoned on public property, except maybe tariffs. Unfortunately, his obsession ...

America’s technology competition with China is about more than just geopolitical competitiveness and national security. It is ...

Karl Zinsmeister, who passed away from cancer on April 30, 2026, was a friend and mentor to me and a quiet but important ...

This month, Congress advanced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, a bill that would ...

If you thought the fiscal year (FY) 2026 government funding fight was bad—with two major shutdowns, one of historic duration, ...

Radically innovative technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) and personalized chatbots are increasingly ...