Expert Insights
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August 6, 2026
The Great American Recovery: The 2026 National Drug Control Strategy’s Historic Reignition of Faith in Our Communities
Over 1.2 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999, a loss felt in nearly every family and community across the nation.
As part of the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to end this devastation unleashed by illicit drugs, this May, Drug Czar Sara Carter published the National Drug Control Strategy for 2026. This Strategy outlines a whole-of-government approach to confronting addiction and the ongoing drug crisis. It is built on two equally important fronts: a campaign to disrupt the illicit drug supply, paired with a comprehensive public health effort to reduce demand and consumption.
Issue Brief
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August 6, 2026
Exporting American AI to Create Jobs, Grow Our Economy, and Beat China
America must export its world-leading AI stack abroad. Promoting the export of American AI technology is one of three pillars in the White House’s AI Action Plan and, as President Trump said, we must “turn America into an AI export powerhouse” (Kratsios et al., 2025). Doing so will create American jobs, grow the economy, and reshore manufacturing.
Commentary
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August 6, 2026
Defend the West: European Civilizational Renewal Agenda
Americans have a direct interest in the fate of Europe by a civilizational bond and culture, grounded in history, heritage, language, and a shared responsibility to defend Western civilization. Unfortunately, the friendly sentimentality that typically undergirds the transatlantic bonds is no longer sufficient, nor even appropriate, to the circumstances of precipitous decline in which much of the continent finds itself.
Fact Sheet
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August 5, 2026
New Mexico: The Great American Comeback
New Mexico’s economy has never been bigger—and Washington just delivered the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation, the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025. Because New Mexico’s incomes and tax bills run below the national average, the new relief stretches further here than in most states.
Fact Sheet
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August 5, 2026
America’s Cattle Herd Is Stabilizing— And America First Policies Are Helping
The U.S. beef cow herd has contracted for seven straight years, falling to 27.6 million head on January 1, 2026—the smallest since 1961 (USDA NASS 2026a; Peel 2026a). But the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) July 2026 Cattle report shows the long decline approaching its end: the all-cattle inventory ticked up 0.2% year over year, and producers are holding back cows and heifers to rebuild (USDA NASS 2026b; Peel 2026b). The turn coincides with a coordinated America First strategy working two tracks at once: near-term price relief for consumers and a rebuilt, more competitive American cattle industry.
Op-Ed
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August 5, 2026
New Mexico can’t afford to be left behind in America’s public safety comeback
All across America, public safety is improving. Violent crime is falling, homicides are down, and communities that spent years grappling with lawlessness are beginning to see progress. This news is a welcome relief for every American.
Issue Brief
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August 4, 2026
AI and the Labor Market: American Workers Are Winning the AI Era
Claims of an impending jobs catastrophe fill chyrons and headlines across the country. A narrative exists among some tech leaders that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and “spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years” (VandeHei & Allen, 2025). In February 2026, panic set in for some after tech CEO Jack Dorsey laid off nearly half (4,000) of his employees, which he attributed to productivity gains from AI (Angelo, 2026).
Research Report
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August 4, 2026
Threat to American Freedom: How the National Firearms Act Taxed and Tracked Everyday Americans
The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) was one of the first federal gun control laws enacted in the United States. Knowing that Congress lacked the constitutional authority to categorically ban firearms, proponents of the NFA looked to the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, which established a novel taxation and registration regime to effectively ban opiates, as a roadmap for “regulation through taxation.”
Op-Ed
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August 4, 2026
New York’s Data Center Moratorium is Nonsense Policy
The state of New York wants to cede the AI race to China. On July 14, the governor signed an executive order implementing the country’s first moratorium on new large data centers. For the next year, no new data centers will be built within the state’s borders.