AI in Elections, Biden’s Internatio nal Economic Policy Agenda, and More

May 4, 2023

Advances in digital technology provide new and faster tools for political messaging and could have a profound impact on how voters, politicians, and reporters see candidates and campaigns in the upcoming U.S. general election, says Darrell M. West.

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Last week, Jake Sullivan joined us for an event to outline the Biden administration’s international economic policy agenda. Following the event, Brookings experts and outside contributors provide their assessments of Sullivan’s remarks, including on decoupling with China, “buying American,” and tension between vision and reality.

Publicly funded research in the United States has led to valuable advances in energy technologies, but America has fallen behind in energy innovation. In a new policy proposal, Catherine Hausman argues for substantially increasing federal spending on clean energy research and development and outlines guiding principles for how the money should be deployed.

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