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Emerging Technology
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What’s Progress and What’s Not in the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan

The current lack of public trust in AI risks inhibiting innovation and adoption of AI systems, meaning new methods will not be discovered and new benefits won’t be felt. A failure to uphold high standards in the technology we deploy will also place our nation at a strategic disadvantage compared to our competitors.

07.28.25 | 6 min read
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Clean Energy
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Unpacking the Department of Defense and MP Materials Critical Minerals Partnership

Could the largest U.S. public-private critical minerals deal of the decade be a model for the future?

07.15.25 | 7 min read
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FAS
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Grounded in Evidence and Driven By Care: Keana Kaleikini Reflects on Her Time as an Impact Fellow

“My job is to make that space honest, human, and useful by always asking questions, listening longer, and following the science. So that our decisions are grounded in evidence and driven by care.”

07.14.25 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Meeting the moment for bold, ambitious science reform agenda: FAS and Good Science Project partner on R&D reform sprint

In this unprecedented inflection point (and time of difficult disruption) for higher education, science funding, and agency structure, we have an opportunity to move beyond incremental changes and advocate for bold, new ideas that envision a future of the scientific research enterprise that looks very different from the current system.

07.10.25 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
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Hello Big Beautiful Bill, Goodbye Commonsense Energy Policy

Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill is law, the elimination of clean energy tax credits will cause a nation of higher energy bills – even for consumers and states that aren’t using clean energy.

07.07.25 | 3 min read
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Global Risk
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Report
Planning for the Unthinkable: The targeting strategies of nuclear-armed states

While it is reasonable for governments to keep the most sensitive aspects of nuclear policies secret, the rights of their citizens to have access to general knowledge about these issues is equally valid so they may know about the consequences to themselves and their country.

06.30.25 | 4 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Translating Vision into Action: FAS Commentary on the NSCEB Final Report and the Future of U.S. Biotechnology

Advancing the U.S. leadership in emerging biotechnology is a strategic imperative, one that will shape regional development within the U.S., economic competitiveness abroad, and our national security for decades to come.

06.27.25 | 15 min read
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Environment
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Issue Brief
It’s Summer, America’s Heating Up, and We’re Even More Unprepared

The good news is that even when the mercury climbs, heat illness, injury, and death are preventable. The bad news is that over the past five months, the Trump administration has dismantled essential preventative capabilities.

06.23.25 | 11 min read
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Government Capacity
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The Data We Take for Granted: Telling the Story of How Federal Data Benefits American Lives and Livelihoods

As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will miss it terribly when it’s gone. 

06.20.25 | 6 min read
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Environment
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Federal Climate Policy Is Being Gutted. What Does That Say About How Well It Was Working?

The Trump Administration has moved with alarming speed to demolish programs, regulations, and institutions that were intended to make our communities and planet more liveable.

06.16.25 | 11 min read
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Clean Energy
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50 Years, $50 Billion in Savings: Don’t Pull the Plug on FEMP

This DOE Office has been achieving DOGE’s stated mission of billion dollar savings for decades. Now government leaders may close its doors.

06.13.25 | 6 min read
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Government Capacity
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The Direct File Dream Lives On

Direct File redefined what IRS service could look like, with real-time help and data-driven improvements. Let’s apply that bar elsewhere.

06.13.25 | 3 min read
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