Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2024 year-end report about the federal judiciary garnered significant mainstream news attention because of its focus on threats to both judicial independence and individual jurists. A Wall Street Journal headline crisply captured the…
By Clay Calvert | March 4, 2025
Web browsers are built for convenience—prioritizing speed, compatibility, and ease of use. But what happens when a browser isn’t for just an individual user but for an entire enterprise? In…
By Shane Tews | February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump increasingly is playing the role of information gatekeeper, striving to control access to venues—technological and physical—where important expressive activities occur. By dictating access on his terms, Trump…
By Clay Calvert | February 25, 2025
President Donald Trump increasingly is playing the role of information gatekeeper, striving to control access to venues—technological and physical—where important expressive activities occur. By dictating access on his terms, Trump…
By Clay Calvert | February 25, 2025
In November, I examined a federal lawsuit filed by a Florida mother who claims that Character.AI ––a platform operated by Character Technologies, Inc.––and affiliated companies Alphabet and Google are civilly liable for…
By Clay Calvert | February 19, 2025
Shortly after Donald Trump sued CBS in October over what he called “false, misleading, deceptive, and, therefore, unconscionable and detrimental news distortion” in editing a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, I contended that the lawsuit…
By Clay Calvert | February 11, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the global economy, the success of America’s AI strategy depends on the expertise and leadership of administration officials nominated and confirmed by Congress. These public…
By Shane Tews | February 11, 2025
Yesterday around 11:00 am, while working from home preparing course material for the next university semester, all Microsoft cloud-related connection to my university was severed. No OneDrive access to my…
By Bronwyn Howell | February 10, 2025
The Biden administration’s handling of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program exemplifies why Americans turned to Donald Trump to be their president: big promises, bureaucratic bloat,…
By Mark Jamison | February 10, 2025
In just a week, Chinese startup DeepSeek’s latest reasoning model erased a trillion dollars in market value, sparked new security concerns, and upended conventional wisdom about AI development. This forced…
By John Bailey | February 7, 2025
DMVs are notoriously slow, primarily because of outdated systems that constitute the foundation of their operations. Nevertheless, these processes can be greatly improved by adopting modern, efficient solutions. Such innovations…
By Shane Tews | February 7, 2025
Let’s start with an understatement: President Donald Trump isn’t happy with the way most American journalists are doing their jobs. During a December press conference, he proclaimed “we have to straighten out…
By AEIdeas | February 6, 2025
Nearly every time I am asked about AI governance, I’m asked some version of this question: The government runs slow and AI businesses are running fast; is the government keeping…
By Will Rinehart | February 4, 2025
The recent hearing on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence inspires some observations on surveillance and society in the form of a book review. My Life as a Spy: Investigations…
By Jim Harper | February 3, 2025
It was impossible to miss them during the swearing-in ceremony for President Donald Trump: The über-wealthy leaders of some of the world’s most prominent and important technology companies, clustered tightly…
By Clay Calvert | January 31, 2025