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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

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/

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...

@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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...