The Unraveling of a Public Good The United States currently records nearly 3,000 confirmed measles infections this year, marking a 35-year high for a disease once considered largely eradicated. This statistic, while alarming on its face, Read More
The Quiet Disappearance of a “Questionable” Policy Less than 24 hours. That is how long a new, mandatory testosterone screening policy, officially unveiled by the Pentagon on September 2, lasted before it was quietly pulled. The swift Read More
The Anatomy of a Political Weapon The legal sparring between Disney and the Federal Communications Commission is not, at its core, a fresh skirmish over free speech in the digital age. Instead, it is a Read More
A Strange Appeal to the Architect of Surveillance A senior US senator has formally requested that the National Security Agency, long a global leader in signals intelligence and data interception, issue public guidance on selecting Read More
The Deletion as a Precedent for State-Sponsored Misinformation The alleged instruction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to CDC Director Erica Schwartz to delete just two measles-related deaths from public data is not merely a bureaucratic Read More
The Illusion of Antitrust Victory The recent US federal court decision, sparing Google from divesting its online advertising exchange, delivers a chilling message: winning an antitrust case against a tech giant can still result in Read More
The Illusion of Empowerment in Telecom Regulation The Federal Communications Commission’s recent announcement — a plan to establish a robocall mitigation scorecard for phone companies — sounds, on its surface, like a victory for the perpetually Read More
The Quiet Erosion of Scientific Independence The collective sigh of relief emanating from American research institutions this week is palpable. The House of Representatives, by adopting a Senate-passed spending measure, inadvertently blocked a proposed Office Read More
The Price of Platform Dominance: A Hidden Tax on Merchants Twenty billion dollars. That is the staggering sum the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states allege Amazon illegally extracted from approximately 1.2 million advertising customers over seven Read More
When the Data Gets Rewritten A national public health agency just edited its own history, publicly undermining the very data it purports to manage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for years the gold Read More