Fragmented and conflicting state AI regulations threaten to slow federal IT modernization, and a proposed 10-year moratorium aims to create a unified national framework to support innovation and maintain U.S. leadership in AI.

Assuming the Trump administration is serious about shrinking government, why not eliminate an agency whose sole purpose is to distort market outcomes by privileging firm size over performance and productivity? When it comes to government waste, the Small Business Administration is low-hanging fruit that has been over-ripe for a long time.

Canada stands at a pivotal moment to leverage its natural resource boom into long-term industrial strength by tying faster permitting and land access to reinvestment in innovation. A modest levy on resource extraction could fund a new federal agency focused on turning Canadian R&D into real production and globally competitive advanced industries.

When the history is written about why the world didn’t solve climate change as it should have, much of the blame should be placed on the environmentalists who gave short shrift to the critical need for innovation—and even attacked those who called for it.

The tax provision allowing firms to fully expense their R&D costs in the year of investment expired, decreasing the incentive to invest in this key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. Congress should pass the American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2025 to restore the immediate deductibility of R&D expenses.

While the ultimate ruling by Judge Boasberg remains uncertain, the tea leaves do seem to point to yet another defeat for the FTC against Meta.

President Trump’s executive order takes aim at nuclear regulations, but without broader support for innovation, development, and scale-up, America’s nuclear ambitions will remain stuck on the launchpad.

A recent working paper finds that management quality plays a pivotal role in determining whether firms expand, contract, acquire, or shut down.

Microgravity could be the next big breakthrough in drug development, but only if policymakers act now to turn space-based research from potential into progress.

A deindustrialized nation, which the United States is on the path to becoming, is not a strong nation. Especially not when China is doing everything it can to dominate the world’s advanced, dual-use industries.