# ALFA News > ALFA News covers where U.S. policy meets technology. Profiles, essays, and contributions on the people and ideas shaping how government and innovation collide. ALFA News is a nonprofit media company. Informed media creates informed policy. Masthead: Matthew Sparks (Publisher), John Leganski (Executive Editor), John McKinnon (Senior Writer), and Jabin Botsford (Photographer). ## Featured articles - [The Man With a Plan](https://alfa.media/articles/bisignano): Frank Bisignano's life has prepared him for his toughest test yet - [The Woman Rewiring American Medicine](https://alfa.media/articles/nvidia): Kimberly Powell and her colleagues at NVIDIA are leading a transformation in American healthcare through artificial intelligence - [Author and Longtime Hill Aide John Leganski Has a New Book and a New Morning Routine](https://alfa.media/articles/leganski): Author John Leganski on his new book Glory, Grief, and the Gavel, late-night writing sessions, and the morning habits that get him going - [Kevin Warsh Prepares the Fed for The Age of AI](https://alfa.media/articles/kevin-warsh-fed-ai): The Fed Chair details the central bank's reform agenda - [Elise Stefanik Responds To New York's Data Center Moratorium](https://alfa.media/articles/elise-stefanik-data-centers): Democrat policy, not data centers, is driving New York's electricity crisis - [What The Flock? Activists Attempt To Remove Key Law Enforcement Tool](https://alfa.media/articles/what-the-flock): Flock Safety is finding abducted children. Some people still want to ban it - [Congress Appears Ready for Autonomous Trucks](https://alfa.media/articles/autonomous-trucks): The current highway bill takes the brakes off autonomous trucking ## All articles - [AI and the Most Important Abundance: Life](https://alfa.media/articles/abundance): An ALFA Capitol Hill conversation on AI in healthcare, centered on life as humanity's most vital resource - [In Canonizing "Patron Saint of the Internet," Vatican Recognizes the Network Effect](https://alfa.media/articles/acutis): Power structures can either embrace this reality, or be overtaken by it - [An Autopsy On The State AI Moratorium](https://alfa.media/articles/ai-moratorium): Technology doesn't pause for procedural niceties. Yet Congress continues to treat AI like something that can be safely bracketed into old models and frameworks - [Forecasting the Future: Why Congress Must Pass the Weather Act Reauthorization Act](https://alfa.media/articles/babin): Americans deserve the best forecasting system in the world, and it's Congress's responsibility to make sure we have it - [Congress, the Conference.](https://alfa.media/articles/congress-conference): Congressional hearings hold substantive policy debate that rivals private conferences, yet go largely overlooked - [Senator Tom Cotton: The DATA Act Will Unleash A New Energy Era](https://alfa.media/articles/cotton): The DATA Act will modernize electricity regulation for a new era defined by homegrown advancements and innovation - [The Politics of Data Centers Have Gone Local](https://alfa.media/articles/datacenters-politics): Local cities and municipalities have been facing data center proposals for years, and 2025 has seen largely one-sided action against this core part of the AI infrastructure buildout - [Technology Redefining American Diplomacy](https://alfa.media/articles/diplomacy): Recent developments offer insights into a potentially transformative approach to American foreign aid - [ALFA Field Notes: Critical Minerals, TrumpRx, and Data Centers in Space](https://alfa.media/articles/field-notes-2026-02-06): Three developments this week: countering China on critical minerals, the TrumpRx drug-coupon platform, and SpaceX's orbital data centers - [Jared Isaacman Is On A Mission](https://alfa.media/articles/isaacman): The new NASA administrator takes on reviving Artemis and stemming an aerospace brain drain - [The Joliet Trade: Why A Massive Data Center Project Passed When Others Did Not](https://alfa.media/articles/joliet): The fate of these types of projects is not based on whether disagreement exists, but how it is handled - [Powering the AI Era: Clearing Regulatory Roadblocks For America's Energy Needs](https://alfa.media/articles/mccarthy): America's industrial future depends on clearing these regulatory roadblocks before they choke off America's technological and economic momentum - [The "Media" is Dead. Long Live the Media.](https://alfa.media/articles/media): In an ecosystem filled with countless publishers, authority has become scarce. And scarcity is precisely what gives the media its power again - [Your Personal Flight Is Arriving Soon](https://alfa.media/articles/personal-flight): The Department of Transportation's Advanced Air Mobility Strategy Will Change How We Travel - [The Ratepayer Pledge](https://alfa.media/articles/ratepayer-pledge): The White House moves to insulate consumers from higher electricity prices - [A New Approach For A Newly Named War Department](https://alfa.media/articles/war-department): Former HASC Staff Director Weighs In On "Commercial First" In NDAA - [Our Water Infrastructure is Breaking](https://alfa.media/articles/water): Events like the Potomac disaster should be a wake-up call to the vulnerability of the systems that deliver water - [Chairman Westerman Prepares Congress For Permitting Reform](https://alfa.media/articles/westerman): Without permitting reform, we risk losing the AI race - [ALFA at 1600: Health Tech, AI, and What Comes Next](https://alfa.media/articles/whitehouse): ALFA News visits the White House for the President's Making Health Tech Great Again event ## About - [About ALFA News](https://alfa.media/about): Who we are, our mission, the story behind the ALFA name, and our masthead. - [All articles](https://alfa.media/articles): The full index of ALFA News reporting and essays. - [Subscribe](https://alfanews.substack.com/): Get ALFA News by email via Substack.