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Taken together with dozens of other fines the EU has imposed on American tech firms, last week’s action against Google was further confirmation that the DMA functions less as a competition tool than as an extractive mechanism. The difference this time is that the Trump administration sent a clear signal it won’t stand for this anymore.

Adversarial AI distillation poses a growing threat to U.S. AI leadership and national security, and Congress is right to address it through the Deterring American AI Model Theft Act (DAAMTA). But before passing the bill, lawmakers should narrow its scope, strengthen evidentiary standards, protect legitimate research, and pair it with technical safeguards and international cooper...

Rather than resort to heavy-handed content and price regulation to address nonexistent market failures, the CMA should follow the lead of the United States and rely on a tried-and-true, ex post law enforcement framework to address concerns about anticompetitive behavior associated with anti-steering practices by Apple and Google.

The USMCA’s digital trade rules set the global standard. Now, policymakers should modernize them for the age of AI, close loopholes that enable data localization and discriminatory taxes, and build a more secure, competitive North American digital economy.

Applying Most Favored Nation pricing to both Medicare and Medicaid—requiring U.S. prices for drugs that have already been launched to equal the lowest prices among a group of peer countries—is estimated to reduce U.S. pharmaceutical revenues by 49 percent and global pharmaceutical revenues by 31 percent.