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- Brock is the former Executive Editor at Atlantic Media Strategies and former Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC; he is the founder/creator/editor of CyberWire Dispatch, the Net's pioneering online journalistic news service. Previously he was the Director of Communications for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to keep the Internet open, innovative, and free. The views expressed here are his alone and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes, or policy positions of his employer(s), past or present.
![The early reviews of Trump’s manical taiff fiasco are in: the stock market has cratered. And while the market is a lousy window into the worthiness of one particular policy […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/catherine-kerr-6rSCAg9zdkQ-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Toward a Forward-Looking Tariff Policy")
![Three decades of optimism about relations between China and the United States would appear now to be coming to an end. Two major factors are causing this. One is the […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/image-20141125-8654-sa51rk.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "US-China: a Chill in the Air")
![The crucial water-energy nexus teeters on the precipice of global concern, where it has for too long been ignored or marginalized for the sake of short-term goals or shortsighted political […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/water-body-5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Water-Energy Nexus—Two Sides of Same Coin")
![by Cora Currier, ProPublica Earlier this year, we detailed the Obama administration’s opposition to congressional efforts to require more oversight of aid to foreign militaries and police forces. Security assistance […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/gt_afghan_police_630x420_131119.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Military Aid Gets A Partial Pass on Foreign Assistance Transparency Push")
![The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States will be the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia. For […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/production.png?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "US Set to be World’s Largest Oil Producer")
![I hear it a lot: “Sharing isn’t new.” It’s tempting to look for glimmers of sharing in distant history. Europe’s empires tumbled like dominoes, save Denmark, which ceded rulership to […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_0063.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Sharing… the Next Steps")
![For decades, America has chased after the promise of clean, domestic energy. But even as costs fell and technology matured, that clean renewable energy future seemed to linger just beyond […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wind-energy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "A Five-Year Clean Energy ‘Revolution’")
![If ever there was an industry in need of higher quality for less money, it’s the healthcare sector. In addition to the demand to improve operational efficiency, healthcare service providers […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/large__8575234274.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Healthcare and the Cloud")
![A graphic designer has redone the hideous slide show on the NSA‘s embattled Prism project. Regardless of what you think of the program, this slide show “do-over” is brilliant. Dear […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iStock_000000812044Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Here’s a ‘Do-Over’ for NSA’s Prism Slideshow")
![In the mid 1990’s when millions of people were just getting used to cranking up their modems to surf the web and check their AOL accounts, Rick Smolan felt the […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/large_3279572370.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Q&A with ‘Day in the Life’ Photographer Rick Smolan")