Smoking kills roughly 480,000 Americans each year. After decades of public health campaigns and aggressive taxation, millions ...

Second look laws provide a ‘north star’ for long-term prisoners, making clear from the outset that prosocial conduct and personal growth can provide a pathway out of prison,” said Logan Seacrest, a ...

Featuring [Moderator] Sabrina Schaeffer, Vice President, Public Affairs, R Street Institute Anita McBride, ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 670, “Fully autonomous vehicles; commercial use, civil penalty.” March 3, 2026 House Transportation Committee, ...

Chairwoman Bartlett and members of the committee, My name is Sarah Anderson, and I am the associate director of criminal justice and civil liberties policy for the R Street Institute (RSI), which is a ...

Stacey McKenna, Resident Senior Fellow, Healthier Communities, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 562, “State Board of Pharmacy – Prescriber-Pharmacist Agreements – Treatment of Opioid Use ...

The Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic recently ended with President Donald J. Trump directing every federal agency to cease ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of House Bill 711: “Local regulation of solar facilities, special exceptions.” March 2, 2026 Senate Local Government Committee ...

Logan Seacrest, Resident Fellow, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 26-115, ...

President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address touched on public safety in several places, presenting what he ...

Watch as R Street Institute’s Matt Germer joins C-SPAN, Washington Journal, in an extensive discussion regarding the SAVE America Act.

I sometimes prattle about a proverbial $1 million tax on poodles as a way to illustrate the counterproductive nature of many ...