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State Capacity
Personnel

How do states manage their workforces anyway?

19 Feb 2026 Gabe Menchaca
Commentary
Climate and Energy

The Hot Rock Act and the race for geothermal energy abundance

19 Feb 2026 Kenneth Sercy
cares act home confinement
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Social Policy

How to evaluate state pro-housing policies: Mind the empirical pitfalls

05 Feb 2026 Jenny Schuetz
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Immigration

Reforming the international student work authorization programs

04 Feb 2026 Cecilia Esterline
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Climate and Energy
Energy Generation
Transmission

The winter of our grid's discontent: Hardening the grid once and for all after Winter Storm Fern

04 Feb 2026 Rachel Levine
Commentary
Climate and Energy

Where U.S. carbon policy is being decided in 2026

03 Feb 2026 Jia-Shen Tsai
Commentary
Climate and Energy

How HVDC transmission can keep Texas independent and resilient

29 Jan 2026 Rachel Levine
Commentary
State Capacity

AI in government: From tools to transformation

28 Jan 2026 Ann Lewis
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State Capacity

Spotting 'concrete boats': Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle

27 Jan 2026 Neil Miller
command-and-control regulation of climate change
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Legal
Climate and Energy

Niskanen Center files amicus brief in federal suit over DOE's intervention in Midwest electricity markets

26 Jan 2026 Grace Olson, Kenneth Sercy, Zachary Norris
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Social Policy

How eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits can penalize lower earners

22 Jan 2026 Danielle Jenkins
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Immigration

In light of harsh repression in Iran, the US should grant Temporary Protected Status to Iranians already here

21 Jan 2026 Idean Salehyan
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Criminal Justice

On crime and punishment

20 Jan 2026 Musa al-Gharbi
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Social Policy

How Alaska's unemployment insurance system can pave the path to paid parental leave

15 Jan 2026 Will Raderman
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Social Policy

How site-neutral payment policies can save money for cancer patients and the chronically ill

15 Jan 2026 Sage Mehta
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Social Policy

Rhode Island child tax credit would be bold, simple, and fiscally responsible

13 Jan 2026 Joshua McCabe
Commentary

Institutional renewal. Effective government. Prosperity.

12 Jan 2026 Ted Gayer
Commentary
State Capacity

Capability-based budgeting: A practical roadmap for getting started

19 Dec 2025 Solitaire Carroll
Commentary

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

18 Dec 2025 Brink Lindsey
mass timber construction
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Climate and Energy

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

18 Dec 2025 Jia-Shen Tsai
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