Publications

Instead of taking blunt approaches that ban or disincentivize the use of personalized recommendation algorithms, policymakers should promote targeted interventions that empower users to shape their content experience, encourage responsible innovation, and support appropriate transparency and independent research into potential risks.

WRC-27 is an opportunity for the United States to advance global space and spectrum policies that promote productivity and innovation, build support for American priorities, and counter foreign efforts to undermine U.S. leadership in space and terrestrial wireless communications.

As AI drives rapid data-center development, states face growing questions about infrastructure costs, electricity prices, and the economic benefits of new projects. To address these challenges, states should adopt a common, industry-informed framework for evaluating projects, determining whether public incentives are justified, and allocating infrastructure costs fairly.

Major agreements, new participants, and key diplomatic and industrial milestones in the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure global supply chains that underpin AI and other advanced technologies.

The Commission should organize Diversify EU around allied production capacity and a coordinated response to Chinese mercantilism.

The U.S. government lacks adequate capabilities to conduct the kind of techno-economic industrial analysis that is necessary to avoid losing to China, nor is it organized to formulate and manage industrial and competitiveness strategies, policies, and programs in an enterprise-wide way. Policymakers must address these gaps to mobilize America’s economic power industries.

According to the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates, the number of science and engineering research doctorates awarded by U.S. universities increased 13.6 percent, from 41,247 in 2015 to 46,876 in 2025.

Policymakers should withdraw the proposed $70,000 Optional Practical Training fee and pursue targeted reforms that address fraud without driving away the scientists and engineers the United States needs.

Pew’s proposed broadband policies put government subsidies and mandates ahead of private investment, competition, and innovation which risks higher costs and worse outcomes for consumers.

AI investment is booming, but manufacturing output is stagnant. America needs industrial policy to restore manufacturing and reduce dependence on China.