Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Los Angeles Fires: A Guide for Making Sure Your Home Insurer Pays What It Owes

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’

Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones

Make America Healthy Again: Is MAHA a Trope or a Movement?

A look at MAHA’s recommendations, per the Casey Means book Good Energy, and why they are an affluent-focused, neoliberal prescription.

Trump’s HUD Secretary and Our Reverse Robin Hood Housing System

A Trump-Turner housing agenda appears destined to continue the worst aspects of the US approach to affordable housing.

Rebuilding Rate for Santa Cruz Mountains Lightning Complex Fire Bodes Ill for Los Angeles Reconstruction, Even Before Getting to Insolvency of California State FAIR Plan Wildfire Insurance

The pace of rebuilding after the Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire in 2000 bodes ill for the likely speed of Los Angeles reconstruction.

The Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) Lacks Legal Structure and Promised Transparency

DOGE depends on Elon Musk’s charismatic authority. That’s a bad thing.

This Week’s Unholy Mix of Drought, Wind, and Fire in Southern California: A Warning of an Accelerating Insurance Crisis in Climate-Risk Areas?

More and more homeowners are understandably worried about what insurance increases might look like in the face of intensifying climate risks.

Americans’ Rage at Insurers Goes Beyond Health Coverage – The Author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ Points to 3 Reforms that Could Help

On the prevalence of claims processing fraud by insurers and what if anything can be done about it.

What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?

With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy

Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

Another type of example of how health insurers screw patients.

Tech Law in 2025: A Look Ahead at AI, Privacy and Social Media Regulation Under the New Trump Administration

Team Trump’s tech industry regulatory plans have gotten less attention than some other initiatives. An overview helps fill this lapse

As Biolabs Multiply Globally, Some Experts Worry About Oversight

India’s policymakers have ambitious plans for pathogen research. Can biolab safety infrastructure keep up?

The Truth About H-1B Visas

More on the H-1B visa scam.

Trump and Political Realignment: Twirling Toward Freedom?

Is Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican party part of a political realignment, or just jousting among plutocrats?