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Climate and Energy

Boosting reliability: How HVDC 'back to backs' improve power sharing between grids

04 Jun 2026 Rachel Levine, Maggie Zhang
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Immigration

Building Workforce Pell for the real economy requires leveraging all available talent

02 Jun 2026 Claire Holba, Denise Bell, Diya Abdo
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Social Policy

New York State authorizes a land value tax that could provide billions for transit investment

28 May 2026 Reed Schwartz, Alex Armlovich
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Criminal Justice

Why (and how) to boost violent crime clearance rates

20 May 2026 Richard Hahn
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State Capacity

The first two eras of administrative procedure

20 May 2026 Alexander Mechanick
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State Capacity

The Legacy IT Trap: What the Technology Modernization Fund reveals about government's modernization problem

18 May 2026 Larry Bafundo
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Open Society

What Silicon Valley can learn from the Eastern Establishment

14 May 2026 Geoff Kabaservice
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State Capacity
Proceduralism

The paradox of power

13 May 2026 Alexander Mechanick
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Social Policy

Baby Steps: A newborn credit relieves pressure on families

13 May 2026 Leah Sargeant
Civil Service Reform
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Social Policy

Growing the base: Kansas cultivates a more resilient UI system

13 May 2026 Adam Nicholson
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Climate and Energy

HVDC transmission can improve reliability and affordability — if we let it compete

12 May 2026 Rachel Levine, Grace Olson
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State Capacity
Proceduralism

The false choice between creating abundance and constraining autocracy

06 May 2026 Alexander Mechanick
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Social Policy

A pro-supply to-do list for Congress's housing bill

06 May 2026 Rohan Aras, Andrew Justus, Reed Schwartz, Will Poff-Webster
command-and-control regulation of climate change
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Climate and Energy

Accounting burden in carbon tax, cap and trade, CBAM

05 May 2026 Jia-Shen Tsai
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Immigration

Legal Immigration in Numbers: April 2026 Status Update

30 Apr 2026 Cecilia Esterline
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State Capacity

Investigating the investigators: Congressional oversight and state capacity

30 Apr 2026 Justin Cohen
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State Capacity

6 ways to make oversight work for state capacity

29 Apr 2026 Anna Heetderks
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State Capacity

The hidden cost of simplicity: Procurement reform's fragmentation problem

23 Apr 2026 Jacob Brown
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Social Policy

How the Medicare Wage Index disadvantages rural areas

22 Apr 2026 Shriya Garg
Income requirements are often confused with work requirements. Despite their differences, they both add layers of bureaucracy to family policy.
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Social Policy

Balancing program integrity and administrative burdens: Lessons for the EITC and CTC

13 Apr 2026 Joshua McCabe
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