While the public comment process may be in need of sensible reform, some current efforts arguably go beyond constructive changes and threaten to fundamentally alter longstanding practices which support good governance. Political scientists Steven Balla and Adriana Bunea discuss how governments on both sides of the Atlantic have recently taken steps to limit opportunities for public comment during the policymaking process. Read full commentary.

Will Yeatman is a lawyer specializing in administrative law and regulatory policy. He recently joined the RSC team as research professor and deputy director.

Looking back at the important developments from the previous year, our team highlights nine themes from a time of unprecedented change in regulation activity and practice. Policy analysts Finn Dobkin and Matias Vesperoni and research specialists Tambudzai Gundani and Henry Hirsch drill down into the details and discuss the impacts they expect these policy changes to have going forward. Read the full commentary for more insights.

Former US Senator Phil Gramm and George Mason University economics professor Donald Boudreaux share lessons gleaned from their new book—a work notable for its approach to framing, interrogating and debunking common myths about capitalism. In conversation with Professor Susan Dudley, the authors explored the transformative power of free markets through major historical developments including the Industrial Revolution, Great Depression, New Deal reforms, the decline of America's postwar preeminence in world trade, and the Great Recession.

Tech policy expert and researcher Tambudzai Gundani discusses how efforts to adopt a state-level moratorium against policies regulating artificial intelligence (AI) would help ensure consistency, prevent legal fragmentation, and allow Congress time to develop a comprehensive national framework. Read Gundani's full commentary at our website.

Senior Policy Analyst Finn Dobkin discusses rulemaking authority of the Council on Environmental Quality and coordination across federal agencies to disclose environmental impacts of development projects. Without interagency and intergovernmental cooperation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), environmental outcomes will suffer. Read Finn's essay at The Regulatory Review.

Policy Analyst Sarah Hay discusses the Congressional Review Act and actions taken by the 119th Congress to exercise its oversight of regulations from the prior administration. Important differences are compared to the 115th Congress's use of CRA during the last presidential transition year. Read Sarah's commentary at our website.

Visiting Scholar and economist Mary Sullivan shares insights from her recent public comment submitted in response to the Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force of the Department of Justice. Sullivan made recommendations for keeping a level playing field between large and small businesses through the use of a tiered adjustment to compliance burdens based on company size. Read the full text of Mary's public comment.