Publications

Senators reintroduced the Kids Off Social Media Act (KOSMA), which has many flaws, namely that it complicates compliance for platforms that already disallow children below age 13 and limits users’ ability to fully customize their online experience.

The Trump administration ended de minimis treatment for imports from China, eliminating the exemption that allowed shipments under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free with minimal oversight. To prevent bottlenecks and ensure effective enforcement, the administration should invest in AI solutions to help CBP efficiently screen low-value shipments from China.

Unfortunately for Canada, Trump is a steadfast protectionist. To respond effectively to his threatened tariffs, Canadian officials must first understand Trump's mindset.

Congress needs to step in to prevent a patchwork of state age-verification laws and establish a child-flag system that would better balance adults' access to legal content versus children's access to material intended for mature audiences.

Clean energy only scales when it matches fossil fuels on price and performance—but Biden-era policy bet big on tech that never will.

Canada’s lagging productivity and innovation, combined with the second term of Donald Trump, is driving the country’s policy leaders to embrace a deeply flawed idea: techno-economic nationalism. This approach will harm Canadian innovation and provoke Trump.

A major disruption in U.S. semiconductor trade with Taiwan would result in a 59 percent increase in the price domestic producers have to pay.

The 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act revolutionized the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, successfully balancing the interests of pharmaceutical innovation and affordability by creating legal pathways for accelerated generic drug competition while extending patent protections and introducing data exclusivities that preserved incentives for novel pharmaceutical innovation.

Opponents should argue 1) this beef with Canada and Mexico is trivial; 2) without allies, America will lose the war against China, period; and conversely 3) a key way to beat China is to develop a North American production system.

The FTC's surprising decision to partner with Chinese-owned Temu in its antitrust case against Amazon reveals a dangerous misalignment between American antitrust policy and national security interests, highlighting how regulatory overreach could end up strengthening China's tech dominance.