On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated...

The Regulatory Accountability Act is an effort to channel the discretion and improve the performance of the modern administrative state.

Ignoring Deutsche Telekom’s needs, the DOJ and FCC blocked the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. As a result, an uncompetitive firm is now trapped in a market it wanted to leave.

At this Reg-Markets Center event, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Kevin J. Martin will present his views on balancing deregulation and consumer protection, examining the role of regulatory action when a marketplace fails to produce sufficient competition or access to new communications services and devices. He will review FCC initiatives...

The Postal Service needs to be converted into a regular business, facing market competition and disciplined by active, focused shareholders. It must be permitted to reduce its high and rigid costs, and to adjust to the realities of a new communications marketplace. This should be done through de-monopolization, corporatization, and eventual privatization, as has been done in many other countries.

The report of the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform--although it attempts to call my conduct into question as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission--actually indicts the Commission.

House Republicans have broken the hugely successful spectrum auction authorization first effected in 1993 and also delayed for many years any possibility that digital broadcast spectrum that is almost entirely unused can be repurposed to serve the growing demands for wireless broadband.

If you look in the right places, something good is percolating in Washington that might actually help the economy.