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On the latest episode of the Consumer Podcast, host Bill Wirtz sat down with Gary Leff of View from the Wing to unpack a change that will affect nearly every European traveler: the EU’s move to require that all airline tickets include a free carry on bag. The European Council and Parliament have reached an agreement that would end the practice of charging separately for carry...

Omar Abdulaziz left Saudi Arabia in 2014, built a new life in Montreal and became one of the most prominent Saudi opposition voices outside the kingdom, as well as a close confidant of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In 2018 his phone was infected with Pegasus spyware, which was traced to a Saudi-linked operator and likely played a role in the chain of events that led to Khashogg...

When President George H.W. Bush signed a bill into law creating the Section 340B Drug Pricing Program in 1992, it had broad bipartisan support. The goal of the program was clear: to help government-supported facilities serve America’s most vulnerable populations. Hospitals and clinics that prioritized serving people with low incomes, the uninsured, and those living in rural a...

Doomsaying is a terrible basis for public policy. Still, some of America’s top AI leaders are deploying that exact sort of rhetoric. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has repeatedly warned about the dangers of open-source AI, anointing himself as our generation’s cautionary priest on AI, despite leading a leading frontier lab seeking an initial public offering valuation near $1 trilli...

India’s cannabis policy reflects a reality that no longer exists. Millions of Indians consume cannabis, several states already regulate aspects of its cultivation and traditional use, and industrial hemp is emerging as a legitimate economic opportunity. Yet the legal framework has remained unchanged for more than four decades, despite developments in medical research and shif...