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Op-Ed Publications


The Economic and Legal Problems With PBM Pharmacy Ownership Bans
In The National Law Review, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that state bans on PBM pharmacy ownership target the wrong problem: government rules that raise drug prices and that PBMs can't negotiate away.


The Case of the Missing Sale: The FTC's Personalized-Pricing Blind Spot
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that the FTC's personalized-pricing proposal overlooks the sales that tailored discounts make possible.


The Epistemic Court: Why Deleting 'Climate Science' Protects Judicial Legitimacy
In RealClearEnergy, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that pulling a contested climate chapter from the federal judiciary's evidence manual protects judicial legitimacy.


Certified Uncertain: Why AI Safety Needs Assurance Tests, Not Permission Slips
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that no finite test can certify an evolving AI system as safe, so AI needs continuous assurance, not licensing.


Pennsylvania's Data-Center Permission System: When GRID Becomes Command
In The National Law Review, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that Pennsylvania's GRID standards turn data-center siting into a government permission system.


The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that data centers didn't create the grid's weaknesses; they exposed them, and the AI buildout has no pause button.


California Is Suing to Preserve Hollywood's Decline
In the Orange County Register, CFJ's Ashley Baker argues that California's suit against the Paramount-WBD merger would preserve Hollywood's decline, not reverse it.


The Trophy-Sharing Cartel: How Europe's Digital Markets Act Turns Google's IP Into a Public Utility
In IPWatchdog, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that the EU's Digital Markets Act turns Google's intellectual property into a utility for its rivals.


Brussels Reaches Into the Server Racks
In The Washington Reporter, CFJ's Ashley Baker warns that Brussels is stretching the Digital Markets Act to American cloud infrastructure.


The Merger Isn't Killing Hollywood. Hollywood Already Did That
In the Washington Examiner, CFJ's Ashley Baker argues that state AGs fighting Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery deal misread both the merger and Hollywood.


A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting
In Truth on the Market, we argued that a brain-injury blood test's 20-year road to patients shows why Congress must fix patent eligibility law.


The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders' Plan to Socialize AI
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that Sen. Sanders' AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would socialize the returns on AI innovation.


Pennsylvania's GRID Standards and the Fatal Conceit of AI Industrial Policy
In The National Law Review, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that Pennsylvania's GRID standards substitute state planning for market knowledge in AI data-center development.


Artificial Intelligence, Natural Ignorance
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that policymakers can't know enough about AI to regulate it well, so consumers, not bureaucrats, should steer it.


Powering AI: Why Markets Matter More Than Mandates
In The National Law Review, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that markets, not government mandates, should decide how to power the data centers behind American AI.
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