Archive: News
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Catherine Tinsley: “Origins of a mass-shooting disaster” (The Hill)
Friday, November 2, 2018 I study disasters — disasters that arise from natural causes like hurricanes and those produced by human mistakes and mismanagement, like the massive BP oil spill. By
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Robert Hahn testifies before Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the HONEST Act
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Robert Hahn testified in a hearing titled "Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Implementation of Sound and Transparent
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Larry Downes: “Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure” (Harvard Business Review)
Friday, September 7, 2018 In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second
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Anna-Maria Kovacs releases policy paper: “Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market”
Thursday, August 23, 2018 Anna-Maria Kovacs, Visiting Senior Policy Scholar, contributed a policy paper, "Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market." She concludes that "[a]s the Federa
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Larry Downes: “Is Disney Moving Too Fast On Fox Takeover? Don’t Ask Antitrust Regulators” (Forbes)
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 The Department of Justice appears to have changed its mind again about the risks of media mergers. After being brutally trounced in an ill-conceived lawsuit to block the
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Larry Downes comments on Disney-Fox merger
How the Disney-Fox Deal got DOJ's Greenlight Quicker Than Expected, Variety June 27, 2018 Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Publ
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Catherine Tinsley comments on negotiation lessons to be learned from the Trump-Kim meetings in Singapore
Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this one. As US President, Donald Trump, and North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, put down their yo-yos and finally meet face-to-face after months
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Larry Downes: “The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don’t Understand Media’s Present — or Future” (Harvard Business Review)
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 This week’s decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has been pending for
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J. Bradford Jensen appears on WJLA segment discussing trade implications of President Trump’s recent meetings
Senior Policy Scholar J. Bradford Jensen appeared on WJLA's segment "White House Takes Up Fight Against 'Back-Stabbing' Justin Trudeau" on June 10, 2018.
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Larry Downes: “5G: What is it good for?” (Washington Post)
5G, or 5th generation mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You’ve probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the discussion about the new tech
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