Remember the last time you got a text that felt off? Maybe it claimed that your package was delayed or mentioned an unpaid toll, with a link to a website…
By Shane Tews | November 24, 2025
Last week, I commented on the infeasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean outpost Christmas Island. While the island is strategically well situated to monitor military…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 21, 2025
For the first two decades of its existence, the American tech sector flourished under a bipartisan celebration of the country’s global leadership at the cutting edge of digital innovation. Then,…
By Daniel Lyons | November 21, 2025
By late September, the New York Times had identified “more than 145” instances of people being “fired, suspended, reassigned or pushed to resign . . . for things they said…
By Clay Calvert | November 19, 2025
Antitrust enforcement in the United States too often fails to deliver what it promises. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have won historic cases—the breakups of Standard Oil and…
By Mark Jamison | November 18, 2025
The United States faces a cybersecurity crisis: not from foreign actors, but from internal political deadlock that has dismantled one of its most effective defense tools. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing…
By Shane Tews | November 17, 2025
On November 6, Reuters reported that Google was planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean territory—Christmas Island—after signing a deal with the Australian Department…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 14, 2025
Section 1033 of the Dodd–Frank Act is the foundation of open banking in the United States—giving individuals the right to access and share their own financial data with services of…
By Shane Tews | November 13, 2025
It has become popular in both parties to believe that the government should be in the business of being in business. From Democrats proposing city-run grocery stores to Republicans buying…
By Mark Jamison | November 13, 2025
The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I…
By Jim Harper | November 12, 2025
Earlier this year, Charter Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications announced a $34.5 billion proposed merger. If completed, the combined company would become both the largest cable television provider and the…
By Daniel Lyons | November 10, 2025
Satellite communications used to be the domain of weather forecasters, cable providers, and aerospace engineers. That changed when Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites came along—and when Elon Musk decided to…
By Mark Jamison | November 10, 2025
U.S. companies released 40 major AI models last year; China released 15, and Europe, just three. This is not an accident. Innovation thrives in environments that allow many ideas to compete, evolve…
By Mark Jamison | November 6, 2025
We throw rocks in the stream, hoping to move the flow to a better channel. That’s one metaphor for what we do in public policy analysis and commentary. I have…
By Jim Harper | November 5, 2025
As commotion subsides over US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s gaffe following Charlie Kirk’s assassination about prosecutors targeting people who engage in online “hate speech,” it’s vital to distinguish hate speech…
By Clay Calvert | November 4, 2025