On February 28, AEI's Klon Kitchen testified to the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Kitchen identified three key challenges to American technological and scientific leadership: (1) Chinese technological theft and aggression, (2) restrictive tech regulation by allies such as the European Union, and (3) domestic regulations driven by grievances against Big Tech.

While Congress has made repeated attempts to reform the Department of Defense in the past two decades, Mackenzie Eaglen observes that none have succeeded. Confronting these failures, Eaglen asserts that a new approach to Pentagon reform is necessary. "Change must not be additive," writes Eaglen. "Defense reforms instead must roll back unnecessary strictures, byzantine regulations, and outdated bureaucracy and reduce time, tasks, and attention on unnecessary work."

J. Christopher Giancarlo and Jim Harper warn that an American central bank digital currency, a "digital dollar," might be subject to the current US regulatory regime that they say invasively surveils financial transactions. Giancarlo and Harper contend that a well-functioning digital dollar, which can compete with global alternatives, must be based on American principles of economic liberty and privacy.

In a new AEI Economic Perspectives report, James C. Capretta investigates the root causes of rapidly deteriorating care in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The mounting problems in the NHS defy easy explanation, so Capretta looks to the system's history and bureaucratic structure.

Matthew Continetti celebrates James L. Buckley, who turns 100 on March 9. "Buckley has been a corporate lawyer, a U.S. senator, an undersecretary of state, and a judge for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals," writes Continetti. "Buckley's centennial is an opportunity to retell his story, appreciate his legacy, and learn from him, too."