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State of the Union: Public Safety, Said and Unsaid

President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address touched on public safety in several places, presenting what he ...
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R Street Testimony In Support of Colorado Senate Bill 26-115, Post-Conviction Relief for Certain Offenders

Logan Seacrest, Resident Fellow, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of Senate Bill 26-115, “Post-Conviction Relief for Certain Offenders” February 25, 2026 Senate ...
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Awkward? What to expect from Trump-Supreme Court beef at State of the Union

Jeremy Dalrymple, an associate director of the center-right R Street Institute, said this kind of tension between a president and the court isn’t abnormal. “It’s inherent to the system that we have.
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Policy to Mitigate Energy Cost Impact

On Feb. 25, 2026, R Street Institute’s Devin Hartman presented at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on Understanding and Addressing Energy Affordability in the ...
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Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and the Future of America’s AI Leadership

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest chapter in the information revolution, and Americans are adopting the technology far more quickly than earlier internet technologies. OpenAI launched ChatGPT ...
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R Street Institute’s Integrated Harm Reduction Program Rebrands as ‘Healthier Communities’

The R Street Institute is pleased to announce the expansion and rebrand of one of its core policy initiatives. Moving forward, the Integrated Harm Reduction program will be known as Healthier ...
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R Street Testimony in Support of GA House Bill 984: “Georgia Second Look Act”

Sarah Anderson, Associate Director, Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of House Bill 984: “Georgia Second Look Act” February 25, 2026 House Committee on Judiciary ...
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LA’s Dogged Defense of ‘Mansion’ Tax Destroys Housing Supply

I sometimes prattle about a proverbial $1 million tax on poodles as a way to illustrate the counterproductive nature of many ...
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Radio: R Street’s Caroline Melear Discusses Financial Scams

KNX reports that “$12.5 billion in scam losses were reported by Americans in 2024 but experts say that is nowhere near the real amount.” Listen as R Street Institute’s Caroline Melear discusses this ...
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Hawai’i Can Free Up Officers and Strengthen Public Safety by Expanding Citations

Officers devote enormous blocks of time to processing minor offenses while serious crime investigations go understaffed. Hawai’i is squarely in that bind. H.B. 2494 would address the issue head-on by ...
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Balancing Security and Access: Pragmatic State-Level Approaches to Citizenship Verification and Voter ID

The ongoing federal debate over the SAVE America Act has brought citizenship verification and identity confirmation (“voter ID”) back to the forefront of election reform; however, states have ...
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R Street Testimony in Support of VA HB 75, Certification of Elections

Dr. Jonathan Madison, Governance Fellow, R Street Institute In SUPPORT of House Bill 78, “Elections administration; duties of local electoral boards; certification of election; etc.” February 24, 2026 ...