The Lunch Hour with Federal Newswire

Shoshana Weissmann manages R Street’s social media, email marketing and other digital assets. She also works on occupational licensing reform, social media regulatory policy, Section 230 and other issues, and has written for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, is a former State Department diplomat responsible for formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters.

Zach Greenberg is Senior Program Officer, Student Organizations, Campus Rights Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Lyn Ulbricht is a political activist and well-known advocate for constitutional protections, individual freedom and privacy. She is also the mother of Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a double life sentence without parole for all non-violent charges, based on his role in the Silk Road website.

Paul Poast is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a foreign affairs columnist for World Politics Review.

Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Director of Research and Education at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, and a BA from the University of St. Thomas (Houston). 

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, Internet taxation, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation.

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, is the Director, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute. He has authored the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013), Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009, and now, Return of the God Hypothesis (HarperOne, 2021).

Gordon G. Chang has lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.  He is the author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books. 

Elizabeth Milito serves as Executive Director of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center. Ms. Milito was the editor of notes and comments for the Maryland Law Review at the University of Maryland School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctor degree in May of 1996. Following her education, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Alan M. Wilner on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.