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Emerging Technology
The H20 Problem: Inference, Supercomputers, and US Export Control Gaps
How to prevent 1.3 million AI chips from being sold to China today, and how to prepare for the future
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April 15th 2025
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Infrastructure
Why FORGE Works
The Department of Energy's experiment in geothermal energy continues to pay off
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April 10th 2025
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Emerging Technology
An Action Plan for American Leadership in AI
12 recommendations for the Office of Science and Technology Policy's AI Action Plan
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March 17th 2025
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Infrastructure
How the White House Can Reform NEPA
Three steps the Council on Environmental Quality can take to fix our environmental permitting process.
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February 3rd 2025
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Emerging Technology
Compute in America: A Policy Playbook
How to rapidly build gigawatt-scale AI clusters in the United States
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February 3rd 2025
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High-Skilled Immigration
Most of America’s top AI companies were founded by immigrants
Immigrant founders are making the United States the global leader in AI
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April 16th 2025
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Metascience
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IFP is currently hiring — join the team!
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April 10th 2025
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Metascience
Sweat the Small Stuff
From immigration to family policy, inaccurate and missing federal data undermine major policy reforms
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April 2nd 2025
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Infrastructure
How to Prevent Federal Judges From Killing New Energy Projects
Giving courts four years to block a project can pave the way for permitting reform
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April 2nd 2025
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High-Skilled Immigration
Strengthening America’s AI Workforce
11 recommendations to recruit the world's top AI talent
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March 19th 2025
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Biotechnology
How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
A million-peptide database could help us solve antibiotic resistance.
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January 27th 2025
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Infrastructure
Leveraging LIHTC for Housing Abundance
Realigning federal subsidies will increase housing supply in America’s big cities
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January 21st 2025
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High-Skilled Immigration
Talent Recruitment Roulette: Replacing the H-1B Lottery
We could almost double the economic value of the H-1B program without changing the number of visas
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January 17th 2025
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Biotechnology
The Case for Clinical Trial Abundance
A series of short papers outlining reform possibilities for America's clinical trials
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December 18th 2024
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Biotechnology
An Innovation Agenda for Addiction
We can advance the development of breakthrough medicines to reduce addiction at scale
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December 10th 2024
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Biotechnology
Securing Benchtop DNA Synthesizers
As the field of benchtop DNA synthesis evolves, it will require ongoing monitoring.
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December 10th 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration
Maximizing the Scientific ROI from International PhDs
Scientific grants should be awarded on the basis of merit, not nationality.
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December 2nd 2024
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