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Explainer Episode 91 – OFCCP’s Proposed Regulatory Changes

August 25, 2025

On July 1st, 2025, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released three proposed regulatory changes, two of which…

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Tech Roundup Episode 28 – Privacy & Safety: Examining the FSC, Inc. v. Paxton Decision

July 11, 2025

On June 27th, the Supreme Court ruled in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that Texas’s age-verification law did not violate…

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Explainer Episode 90 – Disparate Impact and the Future of Equal Opportunity

June 12, 2025

On April 23, President Trump signed E.O. 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, declaring that “disparate-impact liability is wholly inconsistent with the Constitution…

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Tech Roundup Episode 27 – AI on the Senate Floor: Is it Time for a Moratorium?

May 28, 2025

President Trump’s budget bill, having recently passed the House of Representatives, is headed for the Senate with a proposed 10-year…

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Explainer Episode 89 – State Lessons for DOGE

May 28, 2025

In a little over 100 days, the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” has fundamentally remade the federal bureaucracy by…

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Explainer Episode 88 – How Congress Can Reform Environmental Regulation and the EPA

April 17, 2025

In March of 2025, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a major new publication, “Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for…

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Tech Roundup Episode 26 – Making Sense of White House AI Policy

April 15, 2025

In this Tech Roundup Episode of RTP’s Fourth Branch podcast, Kevin Frazier and Aram Gavoor sit down to discuss the…

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Tech Roundup Episode 25 – How are the States Approaching AI?

March 18, 2025

As the second Trump administration kicks off an ambitious AI agenda, individual states have been busy on this front as…

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Explainer Episode 87 – Child Welfare Funding & State Use of Foster Youth Benefits

March 3, 2025

An estimated 5% of foster youth qualify for Social Security benefits, but in many states, child welfare agencies use these…

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Explainer Episode 86 – Regulation & Red Tape: Lessons from Lahaina Fire Recovery & the Path Ahead

February 26, 2025

Hawaii leads the nation in high housing prices. Experts Ted Kefalas and Jonathan Helton from Grassroot Institute explain the regulatory obstacles…

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