In a survey of 1,000 U.S. researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 13 percent said that their labs had lost researchers to other countries as a result of NIH funding changes, while 14 percent reported that immigration policies forced scientists, students, and postdocs to turn down offers to work in NIH-supported labs.

Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. trade negotiators should view the USMCA renewal process as an opportunity to move beyond the old free-trade model and build a strategic North American economic bloc capable of producing, innovating, and competing at the scale required by the China challenge.

The GUARD Act would effectively ban minors from AI companions through broad age-verification requirements, raising concerns about free speech, privacy, parental authority, and the growing patchwork of state regulations. Instead, policymakers should focus on transparency, stronger parental controls, and other targeted safeguards that protect children without cutting them off from beneficial AI tools.

Rather than creating a new funding program for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, Congress should incorporate its funding into the reauthorization of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. This approach would preserve critical cybersecurity services while improving coordination between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Center for Internet Security.

Adversarial AI distillation poses a growing threat to U.S. technological leadership, national security, and AI safety by enabling foreign actors to extract the capabilities of frontier models without authorization. Policymakers should strengthen legal and technical defenses against industrial-scale model theft while ensuring any response preserves legitimate AI research, innovation, and the responsible use of distillation.

Experts believe that in 2026, smart devices, including smart watches, fitness trackers, and digital assistants, will trigger one-third of all emergency calls.

The right goal for Korea is not an AI tax, but an AI diffusion strategy paired with sound tax reform. The government should help firms adopt AI, help workers transition, and make sure productivity gains are broadly shared, without making the use of AI itself more expensive.

Cities that are successfully scaling AI are investing in workforce upskilling alongside governance and technology deployment. Case studies from Washington, DC, San Jose, Seattle, and Cleveland show that employee training and AI literacy are critical to turning pilot projects into lasting improvements in public service delivery.

Echoing social capitalism, the encyclical gets technology and employment wrong, succumbing to the lump-of-labor fallacy and short-term protection over long-term progress.

The bipartisan National Commission on Robotics Act would help jump-start a national strategy to restore U.S. leadership in robotics, a critical technology for manufacturing competitiveness, productivity, and national security as China rapidly scales its dominance.