Commentaries & Insights

Our Commentaries and Insights are short-form publications intended to distill long-form research and synthesize current policymaking activity into easily understood concepts.


Race and Regulation

The public comment process offers a way to place evidence in an agency’s record that it might not otherwise consider, such as race-related effects.

The Discounting Dilemma

OMB's original guidance on discounting from 1988 can help to resolve many misunderstandings about discounting that have developed since then.

2020 Spring Agenda

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) released its semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Agenda lists all regulatory actions currently being developed by federal agencies.

Parsing a Pair of Two-track Regulatory Actions: Part Two

This second part will look at two actions affecting compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The Social Media Executive Order and the FCC

Trump's executive order on social media instructs the Secretary of Commerce to petition the FCC for a rulemaking to address viewpoint-based speech restrictions.