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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Tirzah Duren |Chris Stirewalt |Mary Trimble
On gratitude, conservatism, and The Dispatch. Published November 27, 2024 We’re gearing up to cover a very different Washington—and if you’re looking to understand the next administration and beyond, we encourage you to become a Dispatch member and unlock all our great reporting. Your Dispatch membership includes unlimited access to all our newsletters, podcasts, and articles.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Tirzah Duren |David Drucker |Nick Catoggio
Goldberg gives thanks. Published November 27, 2024 As the masses prepare their turkey basters, side dishes, and psyches for Thanksgiving, Jonah is giving thanks to the things he holds most dear: institutions, conservatism, and Yuval Levin. Yuval and Jonah take some time to express their gratitude for the great American miracle, discuss the treason of the clerks phenomenon plaguing modern institutions, and consider how the exhausted majority can finally get what they want.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Tirzah Duren |Will Rinehart |Nick Hafen |Jonah Goldberg
The new Congress can help shape the structure of online ecosystems to better serve consumers. Published November 27, 2024 In 1996, a court split over platform liability for content moderation resulted in the creation of Section 230, which protected online platforms’ rights to moderate content without the risk of liability for that content.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
dcjournal.com | Tirzah Duren
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tirzah Duren will be participating in a panel discussion on antitrust policy presented by the American Consumer Institute (ACI) and hosted by Inside Sources at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on September 18 at 1:00 pm. Alden Abbott of the Mercatus Center will deliver a keynote, followed by a panel discussion featuring Tirzah Duren of the American Consumer Institute and Neil Chilson of the Abundance Institute, moderated by Inside Sources.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
dcjournal.com | Tirzah Duren
The proposed merger between Kroger and Albertson’s was recently halted pending a ruling in a Colorado lawsuit. While this case is in the court system, there are actions lawmakers who care about food prices can take to limit the influence of the Big-is-Bad narrative from driving up the cost of living. Lawmakers should repeal bad laws like the Robinson-Patman Act before it’s too late. The attorney general for Colorado wasn’t the only government entity to raise concerns.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
washingtontimes.com | Tirzah Duren
OPINION: Everybody agrees that children need to be safe online. But the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is not the solution it’s little more than a grab bag of concerns and mandates not up to the task. In the eyes of proponent policymakers, digital platforms like online gaming, video streaming, and social media are inherently harmful to minors. KOSA’s drafters intend to protect kids by wrangling online platforms with rules to limit addictive and harmful content exposure.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
eu.detroitnews.com | Tirzah Duren
Tirzah Duren | The Detroit NewsMore than halfway into 2024, six states have already codified some version of right-to-repair legislation, pushing back against companies who threaten individuals’ rights to repair the devices and equipment they own. It’s a clear indicator the right-to-repair movement is gaining momentum. In Michigan, a right-to-repair bill was introduced at the beginning of this year.
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May 13, 2024 | 
theamericanconsumer.org | Tirzah Duren |Steve Pociask
While novel antitrust efforts targeting big tech continue to fail, proposals aimed at limiting access to social media are gaining traction. The recent release of The Anxious Generation, by famed social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt, appears to be another arrow in the quiver for those hoping to place age verification limits on social media. In the book, Haidt likens such limits to those of known harms including smoking cigarettes.
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May 13, 2024 | 
theamericanconsumer.org | Tirzah Duren |Steve Pociask
Recent relevant markets defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should cause concern. From online superstores and virtual reality dedicated fitness apps, the lines around relevant marketplaces are increasingly creative. More recently, the agency breaks form, not by inventing a market, but rather by ignoring the impossibility of quantifying differences in aesthetics.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
theamericanconsumer.org | Tirzah Duren |Steve Pociask
Congress managed to avoid a government shutdown through the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024. This act is responsible for funding a myriad of programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Surrounding the conversation of this social net program are proposals to limit the consumer choices of its recipients. While such stipulations were not included in the budget legislation, they could still make it into the Farm Bill later this year.
