Publications

ITIF urges NTIA to pair BEAD’s technology-neutral deployment reforms with targeted home-broadband affordability support—using remaining funds with tight eligibility guardrails—so the program truly closes the digital divide rather than stopping at infrastructure.

Banning AI companions may appear protective, but broad restrictions would cut youth off from beneficial support tools, create privacy risks through age verification, and overregulate general chatbots instead of improving safety with better parental controls and transparency.

Congress’s attention would be far better spent elsewhere than on overhauling American antitrust law with new digital rules.

Since the Inflation Reduction Act's passage, the number of industry-supported small-molecule cancer treatments entering post-approval trials in the United States has fallen by 45.3 percent.

China is on the march to dominate advanced industries that underpin national power in the 21st century. To protect U.S. economic strength and national security, policymakers must jettison old techno-economic and trade policy doctrines and adopt a new national power industry strategy.

Instead of treating manufacturing as a monolith to be revived, policymakers must focus on national power industries. These industries protect U.S. national defense and economic security, and are eroding at an alarming rate.

U.S. R&D is becoming increasingly concentrated in a handful of states just as China accelerates its lead in advanced industries. Federal and state policymakers must expand R&D tax incentives and targeted academic research funding to reverse this trend, spur nationwide innovation, and bolster U.S. competitiveness.

The Federal Railroad Administration should approve the expansion of Automated Track Inspection. This proven technology enhances rail safety and efficiency, but political pressure, outdated regulations, and an inconsistent waiver process have stalled its deployment.

Removing regulatory barriers to wireline deployment will ensure that private and federal investment in broadband deployment can close the digital divide.

Unions are interest groups, and America’s challenges require every group to put the national interest ahead of narrow self-interest. Yes, including blue-collar workers.