For Spirit’s employees, customers & for the communities in which it operates, the airline’s failure is a tragedy. But there are a lot of misconceptions about going around, including blaming antitrust enforcement, and looking at Spirit in isolation. 1/10

The right policy approach to AI isn't do-nothing or wait-and-see; it's resilience. @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social & I lay out a proactive, structural strategy across the economy, society, & nat sec in a paper published by Rand. Summary: vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/resilience...

Resilience as a Policy Approach for AI

Different camps of AI commenters—accelerationists, doomers, pragmatists, and populists—have strong but diverging views about the future of AI.

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Prof. @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social deftly explains how, after the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act: "Airlines declared bankruptcy and merged; union wages were rolled back; small communities lost service; the flying experience got worse; big airport hubs became the norm." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful

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"Politicians need to learn the lessons of hundreds of years of infrastructure policy and once again embrace the role of government in providing high-quality infrastructure." @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful

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"The good news is that this mess is not intractable. There is a way out." @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, author of WHY FLYING IS MISERABLE, explains what happened to the airline industry to make flying so awful, for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful

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Congress has been able to rein in the power of federal agencies through the Congressional Review Act, writes @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social. A similar check should be extended to an increasingly heavy-handed Supreme Court when it considers matters of statute. www.notus.org/perspectives...

Four changes in the day-to-day work of Congress that could meaningfully improve governance.

Ganesh Sitaraman, Gil Ruiz, Ben Olinsky, Chris Wingate

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Rein in the power of Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS through the Congressional Review Act, a law that allows Cong to overturn fed regs with a simple majority & a signature from the president. Interesting court reform idea for next Dem majority from @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social www.notus.org/perspectives...

As someone who spent a lot of my career writing about sports as a funhouse mirror of social and economic pathologies, I wholeheartedly recommend this @prospect.org theme issue— @ddayen.bsky.social and his team did a good job! prospect.org/sports/

Sports - The American Prospect

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OPINION by @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social: “Even if airlines don’t end up adopting personalized pricing, AI-enhanced dynamic pricing is dystopian in its own right.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/airl...

Opinion | This year's depressing holiday plane-ticket search is brought to you by AI

Ganesh Sitaraman: AI may be the Grinch making your holiday travel more expensive

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@ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in Commonplace, “No Handouts for Data Centers.” Research shows that subsidizing sports stadium construction doesn't pay off. Now states are subsidizing data centers. That won't work either. www.commonplace.org/p/no-handout...

No Handouts for Data Centers

They don’t work for stadiums, and they won’t work for AI.

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Delighted that Presidential Regulation (w/ @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social) has been published @ YaleJReg. We argue that presidents increasingly use presidential & foreign affairs powers to regulate the domestic economy in ways that aim to minimize judicial review. /1 www.yalejreg.com/wp-content/u...

Today, @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social warns that monopolies in key parts of the AI tech stack pose a serious threat to innovation. To tackle this issue, policymakers should apply antimonopoly tools to the AI sector.

Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence

While debate over AI regulation in the United States has largely focused on safety, the future of AI progress will also be determined by market structure. To ensure continued innovation…

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Amidst debates about the “abundance agenda” and affordable housing policy, the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator is releasing two new papers charting an agenda for a post-neoliberal housing policy. 1/5

My new paper, Presidential Regulation, w/ @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social, is up: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We argue that recent admins have created a new mode of economic governance that is dramatically different how presidents have traditionally used admin tools to regulate the economy. 1/

[For more on the history, see @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social's great article.] www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...

The Regulation of Foreign Platforms | Stanford Law Review

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Big day on the Hill for those interested in airline policy. Sen. Marshall pushes airline execs hard on points programs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjk...

Sen. Roger Marshall HSGAC Hearing: Airline Fees & Swipe Fees

YouTube video by Senator Marshall

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Josh Hawley goes hard after airline execs on dynamic pricing and fees. Flying is miserable! It's time to fix it.

C-SPAN@c-span.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sen. Josh Hawley to airline executives: "You guys do appreciate that flying on your airlines is a disaster, don't you?...flying on your airlines is horrible. It's a terrible experience...Nobody enjoys flying on your airlines. It's a disaster." Full video here: www.c-span.org/video/?54033...

Excited and grateful that my paper with @tnarecha.bsky.social on AI and Antimonopoly is a finalist for @carnegieendow.bsky.social award for scholarship on AI! carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/1...

Carnegie Award for Scholarship on AI and Liability: Winner and Finalists

Together, these papers underscore the importance of legal liability to the governance of this globally transformative technology.

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Frequent flyer programs have changed — and people are rightly wondering if they are a good deal - but this piece doesn’t spend much time on the lack of transparency and unfair practices that are also in these programs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/b...

Are Airline Loyalty Programs Worth It?

Some travelers, frustrated with changing airline rewards programs, have stopped chasing status and adopted different strategies when booking flights and using credit cards.

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As we start the busiest travel week of the year, VPA has new polling and a white paper on improving the flying experience. We find that 76% of Americans think airplane seats are too small, and 73% would support a federally mandated minimum seat sizes. This is an easy fix! 1/6

Otoh, it would be ironic if Trump succeeded in merging Commerce and USTR, which Obama tried and failed to do, and which has long been a reform recommendation of progressives like @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social @timlmeyer.bsky.social and others. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

A Blueprint for a New American Trade Policy - Roosevelt Institute

A Blueprint for a New American Trade Policy offers ten recommendations on how to reform American trade policy.

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New from me, in Politico, on how public policy shapes the geography of flying....and why you have to connect through big airport hubs. www.politico.com/news/magazin...