Dan Lips

Improving Transparency in K-12 Education

Robert Bellafiore

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins

Recommendations for NSF to Improve STEM Education

Emmet Penney

We’re Not Ready for the AI Power Surge

David Cowan

Who Gives a Ship

Soren Dayton

Dead Letter, Live Practice: How Congress Still Says No

Evan Riggs

The DOGE Days of Summer

How Rand Paul Can Seize A Golden Opportunity To Cut Federal Waste

Joshua Levine

Opportunity Costs of State and Local AI Regulation

Samuel Hammond

Do LLMs Really Reason?

Farrell Gregory

America Relies on Chinese Minerals, and Beijing Wants to Keep it That Way

Welcome, All Web Crawlers

Hegel and the AI Mind

Securing America’s Digital Lifelines

Mark Shanoudy

Job Listing: Operations Associate

Thomas Hochman

Coalition Letter Supporting Baseload Tax Credits and Loans

The GOP Might Kill Trump’s Nuclear Renaissance

Axel de Vernou

Learning from the First World War to Avoid the Next One

Commerce, Not Chaos: A New Vision for the Middle East

Inside Game, Outside Vibes

Process May Not be the Villain—Failing to do Politics Definitely Is

Evan Swarztrauber

Don’t Kill the Golden Wi-Fi Goose

One Year in DC

Who Decides What a Regulation is?

National Emergencies: Chadha Wasn't the Problem

Congress Should Use AI to Identify Unnecessary Regulations

Reforming NEPA for DOD's Energy Needs

Permitting Reform in Reconciliation

America Needs a NEPA Defense Exemption

Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Value

Categorical Exclusions Aren’t Enough

The LPO Is Already Efficient

Kevin Hawickhorst

Truman's Bureaucrats

James Wallner

How Congress Considers Rescission Bills

Lars Erik Schönander

Luke Hogg

States Have a TP-Link Problem

Using AI to Make Research More Accessible and Ultimately Improve Learning

New Council on National Security Bolsters the FCC’s Arsenal against China

The Secret Weapon for Energy Dominance: Nuclear Waste

Pavan Venkatakrishnan

House Republicans Are About to Wreck Trump’s Nuclear-Powered Dream

America’s Industrial Comeback Depends on the 45X Tax Credit

Reining in the ‘Unaccountability Machine’

The Industrial Hollows

Trump Must Fix the Grid

Ryan Khurana

How the Federal Government Can Put AI on the Map

Alex Karp’s Technopolitik

Implementing GAO Recommendations for the USDA

Streamlining NEPA for Broadband Deployment

Supporting the Continued Development and Security of Submarine Cable Systems

Increasing the GAO’s Return on Investment 

Supporting Education R&D Funding for the National Science Foundation 

Coalition Letter Supporting the Department of Justice's Access to Merger Fees

Eliminating Regulatory Burdens at the FCC

Letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Letter of Support for LPO

Reforming Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965

Reforming Federal Education R&D

Supporting the Open Technology Fund

On Vetting International Student Visas

Section 301 Investigation on China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Targeting of the  Semiconductor Industry for Dominance

Comment on Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

Developing an AI Action Plan

Coalition Letter in Support of Gail Slater's Nomination

Democracy Means Agreeing with Me: Electrification Past and Present

Accounting for State Capacity

What the Early Years of Air Power Can Tell Us About Mastering Drone Power

Samuel Roland

Less Red Tape, More Green Space: How the Council on Environmental Quality Can Overhaul Permitting

Sarosh Nagar

Scott Singer

Nitarshan Rajkumar

The Closing Window to Win, Part I: American AI Leadership Requires a Global Strategy for Full-Stack Diffusion

Kelvin Yu

America's Techno-Industrial Crossroads

Redesigning NEPA Regulation to Unleash American Energy

Advancing Nuclear with the Loan Programs Office

Reforming the Small Business Administration to Advance U.S. Manufacturing

Reforming the SBIR Program

Sophia Brown-Heidenreich

Remco Zwetsloot

Reforming Federal Hiring for Tech Policy Talent

Tim Hwang

Securing Access to Foreign Data Flows for AI

Justin Bullock

Seb Krier

AGI, Governments, and Free Societies

Dean Ball

Restoring Leadership in Critical Minerals

Charles Yang

Technological Progress in Chinese Political Culture: An Intellectual Genealogy

On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog: Examining the Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Online

Building Baseload: Reforming Permitting for AI Energy Infrastructure

Aidan Mackenzie

How the White House Can Reform NEPA

Copyright, AI, and Great Power Competition

For the U.S. to remain the world leader in technology and innovation, we will need to revitalize our R&D and commercialization infrastructure—from universities to public-sector entities to venture capital funds. Securing America for the future will require managing emerging technological risks, addressing persistent challenges to critical industries, and cultivating a policy environment in which new technologies can flourish.

Technology & Innovation

As America finds itself in a new strategic competition with China, we must ensure that our technology promotes the national interest and that we protect ourselves from foreign technological threats. Answering the China challenge and countering digital authoritarianism will require the union of tech entrepreneurship, domestic policymaking, and public diplomacy.

National Security

The federal government's policy capacity has atrophied, especially in science and technology. To revive our state capacity in the legislative and executive branches and modernize how the government does business, we must strengthen the public sector's policy expertise and boost our government's capabilities and infrastructure through new technologies.

Governance

Pandemic learning loss, renewed great power competition, and technology's disruption of the workforce have all heightened the importance of strengthening U.S. education, especially in STEM. Improving American students' competitiveness and ensuring that K-12 STEM education is effective and widely accessible will require identifying, developing, and scaling promising instructional models and programs.

Education

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Human, Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War

On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the U.S. Senate

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

The Death of Deliberation: Gridlock and the Politics of Effort in the United States Senate

The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves

FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships

The Death of Deliberation: Partisanship and Polarization in the United States Senate

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