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September 5, 2025
Google Avoids Breakup but Faces New Data Sharing Requirements
This week, D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta delivered his long-awaited remedies decision in U.S. v. Google. In the 230-page document, Judge Mehta charted a middle course that reflects both the strength and limitations of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against the search giant. In part, he readily admitted that courts “must approach the…
September 4, 2025
The Rising Cost of Cybercrime: From Billions to Trillions
More than $16 billion has been stolen in 2024 due to cybercrime schemes such as phishing and data breaches, with losses projected to reach the trillions in 2025. This sharp rise in activity can be partially attributed to a continued abuse of the Domain Name System, or DNS, which is exploited by cyber criminals who register domain…
September 4, 2025
Where Are the CHIPS Going to Fall?
Late last month, President Trump announced that the US government would be taking a 10 percent stake in Intel. The move makes the US government the single largest shareholder in the company, but more importantly, this represents a seismic shift in American industrial policy. To finance the acquisition, the administration is converting previously promised CHIPS…
September 3, 2025
First Amendment Problems with Removing Bias in Speech Marketplaces via Government Intervention
In an August 24 post on Truth Social, Donald Trump called ABC and NBC News “two of the worst and most biased networks in history.” The president said he’d support the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoking their licenses “because they are so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy!!!” Setting aside the question…
August 29, 2025
Science Policy without Science or Policy
Writing almost 20 years ago, science policy scholar Dan Sarewitz made a remarkable observation about federal support for research and development (R&D):1 Sarewitz argued that the long-term stability in R&D funding can be traced, in part, to a bipartisan consensus that R&D, especially support for basic research, was broadly in the public interest. He explained: [T]he political…
August 27, 2025
Filling in the Blanks in NetChoice v. Fitch: Is First Amendment Doctrine in Danger?
Tracking the fate of Mississippi’s age-verification and parental-consent law for social media account holders in the face of a First Amendment challenge in NetChoice v. Fitch is like watching a ping-pong game between the trial and appellate courts. Observing the judicial back-and-forth also proves maddening because sometimes, when Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch prevails against…
August 26, 2025
Extreme Non-Event Attribution
Last week, Hurricane Erin was a massive Category 5 storm that shot the gap between the U.S. east coast and Bermuda before heading out to sea. Imagine an alternative universe, where Erin’s track was just a bit further west — tracking over Miami, along the U.S. east coast, and then making a direct hit on…
August 25, 2025
Trump vs Biden on Science Integrity
Since the George W. Bush administration and under both parties, the White House has focused on scientific integrity. However, Republicans and Democrats have conflicting views on what that means. For Democrats, scientific integrity centers on protecting government scientists and the science that they conduct from political interference from higher-ups. For Republicans — who under President Trump…
August 25, 2025
Does the CHIPS and Science Act Argue for Industrial Policy?
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes have occurred that call for revisiting the old debate of open markets versus industrial policy: China’s increasing economic role and political aggressiveness and the growing…
August 22, 2025
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few. But we live in a time when too many of these roles have become politicized. President Trump recently fired the head of the Bureau of…