Commentary
State Capacity

Capability-based budgeting: A practical roadmap for getting started

Capability-based budgeting is not a wholesale reorganization. It’s a way of making the budget legible: first to yourself, then to leadership, then to oversight.

December 19, 2025 • Solitaire Carroll
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Commentary

Back to the future: ‘Free labor’ and life after mass employment

I’m proposing that we go back to the future, creating a new, more dynamic and inclusive social order by reviving the “free labor” vision of Abraham Lincoln and fellow early Republicans.

December 18, 2025 • Brink Lindsey
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Commentary
Climate and Energy

Senator Whitehouse reintroduces a Clean Competition Act, aiming to link industrial competitiveness and carbon advantage

As carbon border adjustments move from European experiment to broad global trade and climate strategy, momentum is building for the U.S. to define its own rules.

December 18, 2025 • Jia-Shen Tsai
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Capability-based budgeting: A practical roadmap for getting started
By Solitaire Carroll
Back to the future: ‘Free labor’ and life after mass employment
By Brink Lindsey
Senator Whitehouse reintroduces a Clean Competition Act, aiming to link industrial competitiveness and carbon advantage
By Jia-Shen Tsai