Federal government of the United States

September 15, 2026 | Leah Siskind, Ari Ben Am

Countering Chinese AI Distillation: The Case for Federal Action

China’s AI models are improving quickly, but it’s not all through innovation. Much of the progress is thanks to stolen American tech. On September 8, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

September 2, 2026 | Sophie McDowall, Kateryna Kvasha

7 Ways the U.S. Is Trying To Defend Its Water System From Hackers

In the wake of nationwide cyberattacks on America’s water infrastructure, the Trump administration launched Project Watershed 250 on August 31. The six-month pilot, based in Texas, pairs local water...

July 30, 2026 | Nathan Picarsic |

Protecting Texas Critical Infrastructure

July 21, 2026 | Leah Siskind, Nidhi Ummettala

The AI Cyber Fix Washington Can’t Afford To Botch

From the export controls on Anthropic’s latest models to President Trump’s executive order on AI security, the White House has now shifted its focus to AI-enabled cyber security risks. On July 14,...

July 2, 2026 | Leah Siskind |

AI technologists, Your Country Is Calling

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and the United States realized that it was on the losing end of a technology race. Suddenly, the federal government had to identify, recruit,...

June 25, 2026 | Jiwon Ma |

5 Reasons Why CISA Is Indispensable to America’s Cyber Defense

Some 70 percent of cyberattacks in 2024 targeted critical infrastructure, yet Congress is weighing cuts to the lead agency responsible for defending it. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

June 12, 2026 | Sophie McDowall, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

CyberCorps is adapting to AI. The budget isn’t keeping up.

CyberCorps is evolving to tackle AI threats. But budget cuts could derail it before the work even starts.

June 3, 2026 | Jack Burnham, Susan Soh

China Introduces New Outbound Investment Laws To Prevent U.S. Decoupling

After decades of courting foreign investment, Beijing is now working to stop the flow of funds going the other way.  On June 1, China’s State Council published new rules tightening...

May 11, 2026 | Samuel Ben-Ur |

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Xi

The Chinese Communist Party is rewriting the Bible.  As part of Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization of Christianity” campaign, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to ensure Christianity in...

May 1, 2026 | Richard Goldberg |

Here’s how to crush Tehran in three moves

The small group of Islamist regime loyalists now ruling Iran by committee may be able to fool the world with AI-generated propaganda videos, paper statements attributed to an invisible ayatollah and...

April 22, 2026 | Georgianna Shea, Aarushi Garg

Why the government must accelerate quantum preparedness now

Somewhere in the United States right now, a water treatment facility is running control systems that a quantum computer will eventually be able to compromise, and there is no federal deadline requiring...

April 20, 2026 | Josh Birenbaum |

The dangerous national security shell company game

A national security crisis is unfolding before our eyes and we can’t even see it. A failure by the federal government to enforce the law is allowing hidden Chinese companies to use opacity loopholes and...

April 7, 2026 | Bridget Toomey |

Iraq’s Emboldened Terror Groups

Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist, was kidnapped off the streets of Baghdad on March 31 and is now a bargaining chip for the militia that took her. It’s a tragedy on replay....

March 9, 2026 | Leah Siskind, Georgianna Shea, Marina Chernin

Regarding Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents

March 3, 2026 | Leah Siskind |

AI-Amplified Narratives: Measuring Propaganda in LLM Citations

January 12, 2026 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

What Free-Market Economies Must Do in 2026

Creating an integrated “near-global” economy of like-minded, free-market economies will allow capitalism to survive and thrive.

January 15, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Biotech Battlefield

Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics

May 16, 2024 | Craig Singleton |

Security Risk

The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

September 13, 2023 | Mark Harvey, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

After the Attack

A Playbook for Continuity of the Economy Planning and Implementation

September 14, 2022 | Matt Pottinger |

Protecting Americans’ Private Information from Hostile Foreign Powers