Clare Morell

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Clare Morell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing Project. Prior to joining EPPC, Ms. Morell worked in both the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice, as well as in the private and non-profit sectors. She is also the author of The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones, published by Penguin Random House.

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Clare Morell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing Project. Prior to joining EPPC, Ms. Morell worked in both the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice, as well as in the private and non-profit sectors. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones, which will be published by Penguin Random House.

At the Department of Justice, Ms. Morell worked as an Advisor to Attorney General Bill Barr. As part of her work for the Attorney General, she helped oversee the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice and served as Editor of the Commission’s final report. A major focus of the Commission’s report was the challenges that Big Tech’s end-to-end encryption presents to law enforcement for gaining lawful access to crucial intelligence in criminal investigations, like domestic terrorism, as well as human and drug trafficking crimes. Ms. Morell also supported the Attorney General’s work on Section 230 reform as one of his main priorities.

Prior to her role with the Office of the Attorney General, Ms. Morell worked on judicial nominations for the White House Counsel’s office and monitored all nominations data to create high-level presentations for briefing White House leadership. From her experience, Ms. Morell brings an intimate knowledge and understanding of how policy is advanced within the Executive Branch of the federal government, particularly in the Department of Justice and the White House.

Ms. Morell has had opinion pieces published in the Wall Street JournalFox NewsBloomberg News, The New York Post, Newsweek, the Washington Examiner, National Review, First ThingsNational Affairs, American Affairs Journal, Deseret News, The Federalist, The Hill, Public Discourse, WORLD MagazineThe American Conservative, the Washington Times, and the Daily Signal.

Ms. Morell has testified before Congress. Her policy work has also been featured in The New York Times and she has done television interviews with Fox News, Blaze TV, EWTN, and Epoch TV and print interviews with The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, and WORLD Magazine among others.

Ms. Morell received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she majored in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. She graduated summa cum laude and received the Edmund A. Walsh Award for academic achievement in international law. She also is proficient in Spanish.

Ms. Morell lives with her husband and three children in Washington, D.C.

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This Is No Time to Go Wobbly on Screen Use

Clare Morell

Adults have a responsibility not only to monitor but to guide children’s engagement with technology.

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Wall Street Journal / February 9, 2025

TikTok Is Digital Fentanyl—U.S. Ownership Won’t Change That

Clare Morell

Last year, in a historic bipartisan effort, Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law…

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First Things / January 31, 2025

America’s Families Need a Strong Federal Trade Commission Under Trump

Clare Morell

The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and…

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The Daily Signal / January 30, 2025

Model Legislation: Age Verification for Websites Containing Obscene and Indecent Material

Clare Morell

In the era of smartphones and social media, online pornography has never been more accessible to children. Many parents are…

PDF / January 29, 2025

A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right

Clare Morell

A new era of technological change is upon us. It threatens to supplant the human person and make the family…

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First Things / January 29, 2025

Stop Hacking Humans

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

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The New Atlantis / January 27, 2025

A possible win for the kids of America

Clare Morell

A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to support a Texas law protecting children from online porn.

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WORLD Opinions / January 16, 2025

Parents Can’t Fight Porn Alone

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell

Madi grew up in a religious home, blessed with attentive parents who took the dangers of technology seriously. They installed…

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First Things / January 14, 2025

EPPC Scholars File Supreme Court Brief in Support of Texas’ Pornography Website Age Verification Law

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell, Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison

On November 22, 2024, EPPC fellows Eric Kniffin and Rachel N. Morrison filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of EPPC…

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PDF / November 25, 2024

America On-the-Line

Clare Morell

The digital era’s addictive technologies are undermining the foundations of our self-governing republic.

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American Compass / October 30, 2024

Courts Are Letting Social-Media Platforms Get Away with Manipulating Children

Clare Morell

A Utah judge was wrong to strike down the state’s attempt to protect kids from social media’s harms.

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National Review Online / October 2, 2024

The Kids Online Safety Act was a good start, but app stores need accountability too

Clare Morell

History’s first “digital natives,” members of Gen Z, are experiencing such acute levels of emotional strain and depression that Jonathan…

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The Hill / September 29, 2024

Careful analysis of what today’s digital technologies mean for you and your family, what the risks are, and what it might look like to protect human flourishing in a digital age from Senior Policy Analyst Clare Morell of the Technology and Human Flourishing Program.