Cost-Benefit Analysis Supports Continuing the National Shutdown
The lives saved by four more weeks of social distancing requirements outweigh the harms to the economy.
Voting Amid a Pandemic
As COVID-19 persists, governments must decide whether, when, where, and how to hold elections.
COVID-19 and the Defense Production Act
A 70-year old law could help in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.
Moving Toward Comprehensibility in the Legal System
We need to extend and expand an overdue conversation about clarity in the U.S. legal system.
The Elusive Pursuit of Comprehensibility
Simplified communication may not fix incomprehensible disclosures.
Machine Learning Could Make Government More Incomprehensible
Misaligned incentives can encourage incomprehensibility.
The Tax Law System is Only Incomprehensible to Some
Cooperative communication between the Internal Revenue Service and taxpayers would improve the comprehensibility of taxation.
Incomprehensibility is a Trust Problem
Agencies and stakeholders have incentives to speak to each other incomprehensibly.
Incomprehensibility and the Law
The law needs not only to correct information asymmetries but comprehension asymmetries too.
Creating Incentives for Regulatory Comprehensibility
Scholars comment on a new book that advocates greater simplicity and clarity in the expression of laws and regulations.
A Power of Monumental Proportions
Presidents can create national monuments, but a debate rages over whether they can modify them.
Trump’s Regulatory Budgeting Experiment Has Categorically Failed
The Trump Administration’s 1-in-2-out policy is more of an ineffective symbol than an action toward deregulation.