During his 2024 campaign, President Trump frequently talked about the “liquid gold” under our American feet. He meant oil and natural gas reserves. We have fossil fuels in such abundance that we export energy to the rest of the world. It’s quite a change from the 1990s and 2000s when the U.S. was supposedly going...
Working with our allies is the best way to beat China and build a better, cleaner future.
Rarely has there been an entrepreneur who dedicated as much of his life to making the world a better place through principled public policy solutions and had such a lasting, positive impact on the world as Edwin J. Feulner, PhD., founder and longtime president of the Heritage Foundation.
Only the U.S. and China have the resources and the researchers to build effective artificial intelligence. That makes this a race for the future that we simply must win.
Last week, the world lost a great servant leader and policy entrepreneur, Edwin J. Feulner, PhD., founder and longtime president of The Heritage Foundation.
I had the honor of working closely with Ed from 2001 to 2005 as his Chief of Staff at The Heritage Foundation. He was my boss, then he was my mentor, and over the years he became my enduring and dear friend.
However, real life doesn’t always play out like a Schoolhouse Rock civics lesson.
Consider NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act.
If you want evidence of artificial intelligence’s lifesaving potential, log out of ChatGPT and, instead, check out what’s happening in Virginia Tech’s Civil and Environmental Engineering program. Researchers there are building a model that uses deep learning to predict where flooding from hurricanes will occur.
These obsolete laws still on the books would be comical if they weren't so constricting.
The point is that we will need a significant number of data centers and considerable energy to power them, not just in the United States. Just as we need military partnerships with our global allies, in this modern era of data, we need data partnerships with our allies.
Congress recognized that conservation plays a critical role in global security and improved cooperation among countries when it passed the U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act (USFICA) last December, as part of a nearly $1 trillion defense spending package.
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