President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has been defined by its repeated intervention on behalf of dominant technology firms, from picking winners and losers to shielding the…
One year into his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has reshaped the presidency to drastically blur the lines between government and business, abetting unprecedented levels of…
American elections are facing new and intense national political pressures. The basic machinery of democracy — who runs elections, who is on voters lists, how votes are counted, and who…
Nearly one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Big Tech’s influence machine shows no signs of slowing or shrinking. The industry’s largest players are growing their war chests, fine-tuning their…
With each passing month in the White House, President Donald Trump continues to monetize the presidency in ways that defy both the intent and the letter of Article I of…
Executive Summary For decades, presidents and Congress treated cybersecurity as a bipartisan imperative. Republican and Democratic administrations alike recognized that defending America’s digital infrastructure is as essential as safeguarding our…
As Congress weighed a sweeping, decades-long ban on state regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) — a move heavily backed by Big Tech — the industry’s biggest players poured record-breaking sums…
A hallmark of the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has been his repeated sidestepping of longstanding, anti-corruption safeguards. “President Trump’s unprecedented disregard…
We’ve come a long way from the days when Donald Trump called cryptocurrency a “scam.” The president who courted crypto investors during the 2024 campaign, raked in millions from crypto…
Introduction The Founding Fathers rejected being ruled by a king. That’s why they crafted a system of government with three co-equal branches. At its core lies the separation of powers:…
