We are learning more this Tuesday after President Donald Trump said that he and a number of artificial intelligence leaders signed an accord that will include internal and external reviews. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters during his press conference outside the West Wing. LiveNOW’s Alexandra Goldberg is speaking with former Senior White House Counsel, Satya Thallam, to determine whether self regulation goes far enough when it comes to AI companies.

A formal model of when AI adoption pays for law firms: predictable work moves to fixed fees and adopts early, while uncertain work stays hourly.

Three hypotheses on House floor procedure across Congresses: as majority margins shrink, closed rules rise — but suspensions don't.

In five minutes: AI panic as the new climate apocalypticism, why the real grid problem isn't data centers, and how thin House majorities reshape floor rules

How Chief Justice Roberts's ballroom dissent vindicates Congress's prerogative through a standing doctrine that denies Congress any way to defend it.

A satirical love letter to Washington, DC — the majority-minority city of go-go, world-class food, and old neighborhoods hiding behind the political capital.

A Model of Data Center Moratoriums

A firsthand account of how a Right to Try law, a hemp rulemaking, and a psychedelic-medicine bubble intersected across one policy career.

A Washington veteran's field notes from a first encounter with the AI safety world

A Harvard Law Review blog essay claims the Congressional Review Act is a one-way deregulatory ratchet. The data and the statute say otherwise.

Tech advocates invoke regulatory capture like a magic spell. Stigler would like a word about what it actually means.

The case for federal AI preemption keeps changing shape. 84 state bills later, apparently no one's actually read them.

The gain-of-function oversight story is a cautionary tale for AI. Expert consensus buys scientific credibility, never political legitimacy.

Federal regulations are shaped by three competing forces no outsider sees. A firsthand account from the White House regulatory office.

This week: banned AI software still on sale for $1, OpenAI's sandbox slip-up, modeling AI's micro effects, and why attackers only need to get lucky once.