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Emerging Technology
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January 22nd 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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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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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
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January 17th 2025
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Biotechnology
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December 18th 2024
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Biotechnology
An Innovation Agenda for Addiction
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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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Biotechnology
Biosecurity in the Trump Era
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November 19th 2024
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Metascience
The “Metascience 101” Podcast Series
A nine-episode set of interviews that doubles as a crash course in the debates, issues, and ideas driving the modern metascience movement
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November 19th 2024
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Biotechnology
The Triple Rapid Framework for Pandemic Diagnostics
Rapid reconfiguration, rapid deployment, and rapid results could help contain future outbreaks at their source
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November 12th 2024
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Emerging Technology
How to Build the Future of AI in the United States
Part Two of Compute in America
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October 23rd 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration
Practical Ways to Modernize the Schedule A List
An analysis of responses to the Department of Labor's recent Request for Information
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October 7th 2024
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High-Skilled Immigration
High-Skilled Immigration Resources
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September 25th 2024
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