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July 29, 2025
The Tea App Breach Shows Why We Can’t Regulate for Openness Without Planning for Security
Last week, a dating safety app called Tea Dating Advice—which allows women to anonymously share dating experiences to keep others safe—was a viral success. It had risen to the top of Apple’s App Store charts and had over 1.6 million users. Just as it appeared poised to become a major tool to advance digital safety,…
July 28, 2025
The Bad Science and Bad Policy at the Heart of the Climate Movement
Few people are aware of the fact that “climate change” means very different things in science and in policy. That difference exposes the fundamental incoherence of climate policy, highlighted by the recent rediscovery that there is more to increasing global temperatures than just greenhouse gas emissions. Remarkably, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and…
July 28, 2025
America’s AI Action Plan: What to Watch
The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan outlines bold steps to accelerate innovation and boost US leadership in AI. My recent post highlights some of the needed proposals to cut red tape, streamline permitting, and spur private-sector growth. Yet for all its ambition, the plan overlooks several high-stakes gaps—areas where evolving risks may require more proactive…
July 25, 2025
The AI Action Plan: Securing America’s Future in the Age of Intelligence
The White House released its 2025 AI Action Plan—a 28-page blueprint focused on securing US leadership in artificial intelligence. It’s an executive-led strategy with minimal reliance on Congress, emphasizing rapid deployment and national competitiveness. The plan is organized around three pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international engagement. Each pillar underscores how AI is not just a…
July 24, 2025
Frisbees and Flatulence
Today, The Washington Post and New York Times have both reported that any day now, the Trump administration will publish a proposed rule that reconsiders the 2009 greenhouse gas “endangerment finding” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In anticipation of the proposed rule’s release, today I highlight five things that everyone should know about the “endangerment finding” so that…
July 24, 2025
Microgrids, Nukes & Novel Tariffs
In July 2024 I wrote a five-part series on data center energy use. Two of those posts focused on the thorny question of how data centers would contract for power in settings where utility regulation and timelines were too slow to enable the data center owner to achieve their desired speed-to-power, and how transaction cost…
July 24, 2025
Airline Security’s Best-Kept Secret
Salutations to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for announcing earlier this month that people would no longer need to remove their shoes at security checkpoints in our nation’s airports. We should welcome exceptions to the generally rigid risk aversion in government-run airline security. And the really good news is that, formally or informally,…
July 23, 2025
Trump’s New AI Plan Is Necessary but Insufficient
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, At minimum, the Trump White House’s new AI Action Plan deserves credit for being honest about what it is: not a blueprint for technocratic governance or navigating a world of superintelligence, but rather a stab at geostrategic competitiveness policy designed to ensure American dominance in what could be the defining technology of our time….
July 22, 2025
Five Figures – July 2025
Today I am starting up a new feature here at THB — Five Figures. Every month, I will share five (or so) of the most provocative, interesting, or challenging figures to have recently crossed my desk. Five Figures adds to the features and content available to THB’s paid subscribers — which you can find here. Before making…
July 22, 2025
Europe’s Data Strategy Is Built on Wishful Thinking
The European Union is trying to engineer a digital revolution. Through its European Strategy for Data, EU officials hope to create a “single market for data,” knitting together governments, businesses, and individuals into a shared system of industrial and personal data. The goal is an innovative, sovereign digital ecosystem that can rival the United States…