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Darrell M. West and
Darrell West
Darrell M. West Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Center for Effective Public Management, Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

Roxana Muenster
roxana muenster
Roxana Muenster COMPASS Fellow - The Brookings Institution, PhD Student - Department of Communication, Cornell University, Graduate Affiliate - Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, University of North Carolina

August 5, 2024

  • Project 2025, created by the Heritage Foundation, is a comprehensive 900-page policy agenda designed to help a prospective Republican administration implement significant social and political reforms quickly within a four-year term.
  • The agenda targets media and technology industries, portraying them as crucial elements both to challenge and utilize in dismantling what the authors describe as a “tyranny of wokeism.”
  • On the TechTank Podcast, Darrell West and Roxana Mika Muenster discuss the implications of Project 2025 for tech and media policy, analyzing its potential impacts on industry, politics, and the general electorate.
Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Source: Michael Brochstein / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect
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TechTank, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues. Moderators Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with experts and policymakers to share data, ideas, and policy solutions that address the challenges of our digital world.

As the elections get underway, there has been considerable attention to Project 2025—an initiative launched by the Heritage Foundation that brought over 400 scholars together to develop a policy agenda for the future. The resulting 900 page document outlines a comprehensive remaking of American policy on a range of different topics.

This week on the TechTank Podcast, co-host Darrell West is joined by Roxana Muenster, COMPASS fellow within the Center for Technology and Innovation at Brookings and a doctoral student at Cornell University. Roxana also authored a recent article on our TechTank blog, “Project 2025:  What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Media and Technology Policy.” Together, Darrell and Roxana explore what Project 2025 envisions for tech and media policy, discussing the impact their agenda could have on industry politics and voters themselves.

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Darrell West
Darrell M. West Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Center for Effective Public Management, Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

roxana muenster
Roxana Muenster COMPASS Fellow - The Brookings Institution, PhD Student - Department of Communication, Cornell University, Graduate Affiliate - Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, University of North Carolina

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