Digital Beat

Broadband provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Proposals to realize the democratic potential of our media and communications ecosystem

2020 Charles Benton Digital Equity Awards

It’s a make or break year for America

Americans are unprotected from anti-consumer and anticompetitive practices of broadband Internet access service providers

Home broadband adoption rates aren’t increasing

We’ve witnessed one of the worst and weirdest cases of industrial policymaking I’ve ever seen in any Administration, Democratic or Republican.

We don’t need to rank in importance the issues of special interest money, ludicrous redistricting, and big media. They are each part of a linked democratic challenge.

In the next decade, everyone in America should be able to use High-Performance Broadband

How bridging the digital divide could help address our nation’s persistent health disparities

Consolidation and deregulation with little attention