The US shares many challenges with these jurisdictions and can draw insights from their experiences, yet the comparison questions assumptions about what a post-copper world will look like and the…
By Bronwyn Howell | July 10, 2026
Shane is joined by Kevin Frazier to examine what President Trump’s recent cybersecurity executive order does, what it leaves unresolved, and how policymakers can respond to AI-enabled cyber risks while…
By Shane Tews | July 9, 2026
For the Chatrie case, the action moves back to the Fourth Circuit. For more solid legal privacy protection, it’s a conservative effort in at least one state, enjoying bipartisan support,…
By Jim Harper | July 6, 2026
As the lawmaker, the court should bear the burden of clarifying what is prohibited, rather than allowing ambiguous drafting to chill lawful conduct.
By Daniel Lyons | July 2, 2026
In 1956, government officials were trying to address situations they could see. A few researchers gathering at Dartmouth were imagining possibilities that few others could. History remembers both. But only…
By Mark Jamison | July 1, 2026
Recent rulings in a federal lawsuit involving whether an “8647” flag displayed in Washington, DC, constitutes a true threat of violence against President Donald Trump cut against the government’s indictment…
By Clay Calvert | July 1, 2026
Capital markets have classified AI infrastructure as a distinct asset class. The policy architecture that governs it still belongs to the last industrial era. That gap is the real bottleneck.
By Shane Tews | June 30, 2026
The next era of public education will be judged less by the elegance of its ideas than by whether it responds, with humility and pragmatism, to the people it exists…
By John Bailey | June 26, 2026
The nation that leads in AI, advanced manufacturing, and innovation will be the nation that can supply abundant, reliable, economical electricity. America pioneered commercial nuclear energy. It should not watch…
By Mark Jamison | June 26, 2026
The most important economic effect of artificial intelligence may not be that machines become more capable. It may be that people become more capable when they work alongside AI.
By Mark Jamison | June 25, 2026
Judges on some federal appellate courts are using the US Supreme Court’s 2024 First Amendment decision in Moody v. NetChoice to strip away statutory safeguards afforded to social media platforms…
By Clay Calvert | June 24, 2026
Legislation passed this month by New York’s Senate and Assembly raises serious First Amendment and due process concerns about the government’s ability to compel news organizations to tell the public…
By Clay Calvert | June 23, 2026
Our paper thus reckons age-gating proposals as disproportionate restrictions on the rights of children and society at large. Or as Amnesty International has observed, “right diagnosis, wrong prescription.”
By Bronwyn Howell | June 18, 2026
Bipartisan legislation proposed last week in the US Senate by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) provides sound ways to push back against and expose the underhanded, informal brand…
By Clay Calvert | June 16, 2026
Cost escalation in U.S. nuclear power was never inevitable — it reflected policy choice
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 15, 2026