Opinion

Setting caps on interest rates can lead to unintended, negative consequences for borrowers.

Regulators should restrict the sale and access of covert cameras but not ban them outright.

Food certification organizations, if backed with criminal sanctions, can help deter food fraud.

Courts should not rely on the number of public comments to assess the legality of regulations.

ACUS assesses the changing landscape of how agencies use new technologies to hold hearings.

Agencies can do more to disclose input on regulatory alternatives during notice-and-comment processes.

Periodic reviews of regulations can promote learning and improve policy.

When state and local voters prohibit clean energy transmission lines, they halt progress on climate change mitigation.

ACUS recommends best practices for how agencies manage mass, computer-generated, and falsely attributed public comments.

Existing federal privacy laws may not cover data collected from autonomous vehicles.

The filibuster has caused Congress to give up its constitutional power to oversee the administrative state.

Despite global summits and accords, the solution to climate change rests with individual countries.