The FCC’s Retreat: Lowering the Bar, Not Raising the Standard America’s digital infrastructure just got a lot less ambitious, and the world barely noticed. While Silicon Valley obsesses over the next AI breakthrough Read More
The Regulatory Hammer: Beyond Speech A federal agency threatening to revoke broadcast licenses is not merely a legal spat; it is a cold, hard assertion of power that echoes far beyond the US District Court Read More
The De-Funding of Data: A Deliberate Blinding The systematic hollowing out of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is not merely an austerity measure; it is a profound and deliberate act of intellectual Read More
The Price of Pervasive Data Collection Perhaps it’s the local summer diet of deep-fried cheese curds, corn on the cob, and Spotted Cow, but Wisconsin residents have been feeling pretty dyspeptic about Flock’s Read More
The Self-Inflicted Thirst of a Rain-Soaked Island Puerto Rico, an island routinely drenched by between 30 and 169 inches of rainfall annually, is rationing water. For 180,000 households, taps go dry two days a week, a stark reality Read More
The Illusion of Acceleration in US Renewables The impressive figures released by the US Energy Information Administration regarding new power plant capacity tell only part of a more complicated story about America’s clean energy Read More
The Fading Triumph of Centralized Control An 80 percent reduction in combined harmful air pollutants from vehicles and industrial sources since 1970 represents a monumental achievement in environmental policy. This figure, often overlooked in the relentless churn Read More
The New Gravity of Orbital Access Policy experts across Europe now openly articulate a stark reality: the continent is trapped “between a rock and a hard place” regarding its access to space. This isn’t Read More
The Illusion of Compliance as a Business Model The latest order from US District Judge James Donato, giving Google one week to genuinely fix its supposedly new third-party app store download process within the Play Read More
The idea that political discourse, specifically the pronouncements of a former President, can be packaged and sold as a high-speed data feed for financial gain marks a disturbing escalation in the commodification of public life. Read More