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March 7, 2025|Blogs

Texas Cracked the Code on Broadband Deployment. Now It Can Lead on Affordability.

Texas is proving that tech-neutral, efficient broadband deployment can close the digital divide—on budget and with surplus funds to boost affordability.

March 7, 2025|Blogs

The Global Spread of Protectionist Policies That Squeeze American Tech Companies

A growing proliferation of antitrust regulations, content-moderation requirements, data-localization mandates, digital service taxes, exorbitant fines and fees, and local content requirements reveals a clear pattern: They are designed to unfairly burden and extract revenue from American Big Tech.

March 6, 2025|Blogs

AI Is Key to Trump’s Education Overhaul

Education Secretary Linda McMahon proposed eliminating the Department of Education by cutting federal bureaucracy to empower state-led innovation, but true transformation in American education requires a national commitment to investing in AI-driven personalized learning.

March 5, 2025|Blogs

After DOGE: Trump’s Chance to Modernize

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has aggressively downsized the federal workforce. To maintain essential services with fewer staff, the administration must embrace digital transformation, leveraging AI, automation, and self-service portals to improve efficiency and modernize government operations.

March 4, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Korea’s Digital Gamble: Will New Tech Rules Hurt Innovation and Help China?

South Korea risks harming its consumers, economy, and relationship with the United States by adopting Europe's flawed digital competition regulations.

March 3, 2025|Blogs

Driving American Innovation: Leveraging the Power of Women in STEM

As the United States seeks to boost domestic innovation and industry, unlocking the transformative potential of women in STEM is essential for to continue building American Innovation.

March 3, 2025|Podcasts

Podcast: The US Battle Plan, With Everett Eissenstat and Kate Kalutkiewicz

In this episode of the Trade War Podcast, host Stan McCoy discusses the first month of President Trump's second term with two former National Economic Council officials, Everett Eissenstat and Kate Kalutkiewicz.

March 3, 2025|Blogs

Fact of the Week: A 10 Percent Increase in Robot Density in Manufacturing Sectors Results in a 2 Percent Decrease in Injuries

A study of 15 manufacturing industries across 18 European nations from 2011 to 2019 found that a 10 percent increase in robot density resulted in a 0.07 percent reduction in fatalities and a 1.96 percent decrease in injuries.

March 3, 2025|Reports & Briefings

From Fast Follower to Innovation Leader: Restructuring South Korea’s Technology Regulation

South Korea stands at a crossroads as its restrictive “positive regulation” and “shadow regulations” stifle innovation in AI, crypto, and mobility tech, allowing China to race ahead. Korea must modernize this framework or risk losing its position as a global innovation leader.

February 28, 2025|Blogs

The Tech Oligarchy That Isn’t: Big Tech’s Power Is Overstated

Critics on both sides of the aisle view the “private power” of dominant tech firms as unassailable and protected by anticompetitive conduct, but their alleged monopoly power is often overstated.

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