Without reform, exclusionary zoning will continue to damage equity and inhibit growth and opportunity in many parts of America.
The U.S. should establish a testbed for government-procured artificial intelligence (AI) models used to provide services to Americans.
As President Biden’s Summit of Democracy highlighted, it’s a dark time for democracy worldwide. Since 2020, the number of countries headed towards authoritarianism has outnumbered those headed towards democratic freedom, while the number of “backsliding democracies” have doubled in the last decade. The United States and its allies have been responsible for the lionshare of this past decade’s democratic downturn, while […]
Since the creation of this country, the American scientific enterprise has been built by talented immigrants. FAS has worked to strengthen the U.S. immigration system to ensure that experts in all scientific fields, as well as entrepreneurs with innovative ideas are able to build lives in the United States. Over the past two years, FAS […]
The American hallmark has always been its ingenuity, from the creation of the Internet to the rise of Silicon Valley. But for the last few decades, ingenuity has been on the decline: not because of a lack of genius but because of a failure of the marketplace to bring forward those new ideas in scientific knowledge, entrepreneurship, […]
It is critical that services such as video calling and email be available to people in prisons at a “just and reasonable” cost.
Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration should strive to clarify environmental regulatory requirements and standing for litigation under NEPA.
To inform the Administration’s new strategy, we pulled together a curated set of ideas from our extensive portfolio of nonpartisan, actionable ideas in science and technology policy.
The problem of fraudulent trademark registrations at the PTO has become increasingly severe, but it can be contained.
The Biden Administration should explicitly emphasize that open government data is a top Administration priority.
The U.S. should invest in civic technologies that advance next-gen American infrastructure and prioritize individual privacy protections.
The federal government can and must intervene to promote transparency and competition in the broadband market.