Three hundred thousand kilograms of methamphetamine precursor chemicals sit in a Houston warehouse, their blue barrels arranged in an oddly orderly display of chaos. The chemicals — enough to produce a million…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 8, 2025
We stand at the precipice of a technological revolution that could transform every aspect of business and society. Artificial intelligence promises unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. Yet, as we survey…
By Shane Tews | September 8, 2025
The founders of the American republic assumed malice would be constrained by material scarcity: Weapons were expensive, destructive power centralized, and the state’s police and military could deter or punish…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 5, 2025
The White House has declared artificial intelligence “non-negotiable” for America’s future. Winning the AI race, the administration argues, is essential to the nation’s prosperity and security. But if the United…
By Mark Jamison | September 5, 2025
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…
By Will Rinehart | September 5, 2025
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…
By Will Rinehart | September 4, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | September 3, 2025
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…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 29, 2025
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…
By Clay Calvert | August 27, 2025
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,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 26, 2025
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,…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 25, 2025
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…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | August 22, 2025
When someone attacks your democracy, it tends to stick in your craw. I don’t know that democracy is the last, best way to arrange human affairs, but if we’re going…
By Jim Harper | August 22, 2025
There was much angst surrounding AI as it loomed as a potential part of daily life, even among the so-called AI experts. But is it warranted? Physicist Niels Bohr is…
By Bronwyn Howell | August 22, 2025
Agentic AI, or automated systems that are capable of completing tasks and making decisions without human intervention, requires interoperability to remain innovative and competitive. But what does this degree of…
By Shane Tews | August 21, 2025