Reports

As parts of the U.S. government wrangle over another round of Covid-19 relief, one of the thorniest issues is whether to offer more aid to states and local governments. What has become clear, however, is that the funds already doled out should have easily covered the shortfalls in tax revenue ...

Measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have reduced the prevalence of other communicable diseases, like measles. But they also interrupted the delivery of vaccines against such illnesses. In some countries, inoculation programs were suspended, and in others, a lack of supplies meant vaccines were unavailable. It all adds up to ...

Contrary to the predictions of regulatory advocates, transmission speeds have increased and network investment is booming since the repeal of net neutrality rules. Yet proponents are still pursuing neutrality measures in state legislatures. As a result, California, Oregon, Washington and Vermont have adopted net neutrality regulations of their own, setting ...

Deploying 5G technology is more a slog than a race, and the U.S. is further ahead than many have given it credit for. While China's centralized, authoritarian government can allocate spectrum and infrastructure sites faster than the U.S., the real benefits from 5G will come from the innovation that it ...

The fifth generation of cellular wireless technology, or 5G, will both connect the world like never before and present serious security vulnerabilities. At the same time, Chinese presence in telecommunications sectors across the world is growing. The U.S. is concerned China could gain access to sensitive data. What recourse will ...

Two decades ago it appeared that measles, a disease that once claimed close to 3 million lives per year, had been nearly eradicated. But keeping it at bay depends on very high rates of immunization. As these rates decline, measles outbreaks have spiked again, spurred by the social phenomenon of ...

President Donald Trump declared on October 1 that the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico signifies the return of the United States as a “manufacturing powerhouse.” U.S. manufacturing has indeed changed dramatically since 1992, when the three countries signed their original trade pact. But the complex and varied factors ...

The United States stands at a regulatory crossroads as Congress debates whether to adopt European-style controls over the use of online personal data – or trust that Facebook, Google, and the like will respond voluntarily (and more efficiently than government) to their customers’ diverse and ever-changing privacy preferences. The wrong ...

President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is grand in ambition, bold on reform and going nowhere at present. But federal data do not support the notion that the U.S. is suffering an infrastructure crisis. Instead, analysts say, the problem is excessive regulatory barriers and a flawed ...

For all the sound and fury in the media over the Trump administration, there has been little recognition of the dramatic shift in regulatory policy over the past year. President Trump has ended many of his predecessor's most burdensome rules on business and has slashed red tape. He has also ...