How Can the U.S. Help Wean the EU Off Russian Energy?

By Peyton Lofton — May 11, 2022

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Governance

Is the Political Center Finally Poised to Strike Back?

May 5, 2022

The United States appears to be more polarized than ever. While many Americans hoped the divisiveness would wane with the conclusion of the Trump administration, it has continued and in some ways even escalated in the early days of the Biden administration—and the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on Roe v. Wade may fan the flames even more. According to Pew Research Center, Democrats and...

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Climate and Energy

Climate Change Polls Don’t Always Tell the Whole Story

April 28, 2022

Even as energy costs continue to spiral in the U.S. and around the world, a recent Gallup survey found Americans still overwhelmingly support several key proposals aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. So why aren’t American voters putting more pressure on Congress to move major climate legislation? It almost certainly comes back to Americans’ concerns...

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Governance

Who Votes in America?

April 15, 2022

In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, voter turnout was the highest it has been in a century, and 94% of Americans reported in a Pew Research Center survey that they found it “easy to vote.” This is not surprising; in response to the special challenges posed by the pandemic, many states adjusted their voting procedures to expand opportunities to vote by mail and made it easier to drop paper...

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Social Policy

“Unmet Demand” and the Attack on Charters

April 8, 2022

The Department of Education has proposed changes to the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP) that many school reform advocates find alarming. The rules will make it harder for certain charter schools to receive federal funding, threatening to chill the charter movement. Specifically, officials want to require CSP beneficiaries to provide evidence of “unmet demand” for charters in their area,...

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Climate and Energy

You Can’t Have Clean Energy Without More Domestic Mining

April 7, 2022

Advancing clean energy to meet climate goals has been a signature priority of the Biden administration. But Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine has forced a crucial and long-ignored question to the fore: Where will America get the raw materials required to build and deploy more clean energy technologies? Minerals like copper, nickel, lithium, and cobalt—which must be extracted by...

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Social Policy

Affirmative Action in Universities: What the Courts, the Public, and the Facts Say

March 29, 2022

During her confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson pledged to recuse herself from an upcoming case on affirmative action if she is confirmed as a new justice. Students for Fair Admissions alleges that Harvard—where Judge Jackson serves on the Board of Overseers—is violating the Civil Rights Act with its race-conscious admissions policies. This case has reignited a...

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The Big Issues

Climate and Energy

The fight against climate change is a multi-decade challenge, and must be sustained across many presidencies and sessions of Congress. For any solution to stand a chance, it must be forged in the center.

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