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Republicans Should Appreciate How Data Centers Deliver on Their Priorities

The Republican Party can embrace American technological dominance, or it can embrace the growing alarmism around America’s ...
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Republicans loved Project 2025 until it threatened Big Ag handouts

From Day 1, the Trump administration has moved to quickly implement many of Project 2025’s policy recommendations and put ...
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Separating Private Selections from Public Elections Part 3: How could a privatized-party system affect general elections?

This is the final installment in a three-part series on improving America’s candidate selection system by privatizing ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: Is the future of the grid off the grid?

Across the country, policymakers and market participants are struggling to adapt to an explosion in projected growth in ...
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BAAJA Blast Part 1: What Does Permitting Reform Mean for Energy and Natural Resources?

On September 30, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) was unveiled by Senators Capito, Heinrich ...
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Containment Failure: Viewing the Agentic Breakout Wave Through a Cybersecurity Lens

Tech policy news this summer was rife with stories of breakout scenarios where agents were able to escape the bounds of their sandboxes and access external infrastructure without permission. These ...
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Scoring the States: Policy Approaches to Primaries, Political Speech, and Election Security

Featuring [Moderator] Chris McIsaac, Resident Fellow, Governance, R Street Institute John Coleman, Legislative Counsel, AI ...
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Examining the DOJ’s National Standards for Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training

Part 1: What is law enforcement de-escalation training, and why did Congress agree to fund it? Prior to 2009, only eight states required de-escalation training for police officers. Today, at least 18 ...
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The Certification Bottleneck: How the U.S. Government Is Slowing Its Own Post-Quantum Migration

In June 2026, the Trump administration issued an executive order aimed at accelerating the migration of federal information systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The order was issued amidst ...
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Election Policy Landscape Stabilizes as Midterms Approach Part 2: Voter Identification

This is the second installment in a multipart series on the current election policy landscape as we approach the 2026 midterms. Read the introduction and see other posts here. Ensuring that only ...