Analysis

The Trump Midterm: Looking at the 116th Congress
Tuesday, Nov 6 was Election Day in the United States.

De-Platform Hate?
A mass murderer shot and killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh (PA) on Oct 27, in what is believed to be the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the United States, ever.

Brandeis’s Framework for Antitrust and Competition
Brandeis’s view of progressive governance meant that the government could improve itself and the lot of its people.
A New National Spectrum Strategy
On October 25, 2018, President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering federal agencies

We Must Let Our Minds Be Bold
With publication of Louis Brandeis: A Man for This Season by the Colorado Technology Law Journal,

The Latest Round of FTC Competition and Consumer Protection Hearings
The Federal Trade Commission this week held another set of hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. The hearings and public comment process this Fall and Winter will provide opportunities for FTC staff and leadership to

Inclusion and Civic Engagement in Public Technology Building and Planning
Whether they are Wi-Fi kiosks, urban sensors, fiber networks, or built-from-scratch “smart” ne

Everybody complains about the Rural Broadband Divide, but nobody does anything about it
How can we solve the rural broadband digital divide? On September 6, the Broadband Connects America (a new coalition which includes the Benton Foundation) offered a set of principles for attacking the problem.

This is the moment all of Trump’s anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
Don’t believe your eyes and ears. Believe only me. That has been President Trump’s message to the public for the past two years, pounded in without a break: The press is the enemy. The news is fake.

A Vision for the 2020s: Access to Broadband in the Next Decade
American democracy, like any democracy, requires the freedom to speak. But American democracy has always recognized the corollary: the strength of speech rests on access to communications networks.