Writing

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• 06.16.26

  Fixing a Broken Market: A Plan for Cheaper Freight, Cleaner Air, and American Truck Leadership

  Caroline Henderson, Guillermo A. Ortiz, Ricky Parker, Hannah Safford, Diana Sánchez Carrillo, Craig Segall

  Americans are paying too much for almost everything, because the United States has long treated its trucking industry as an artifact to be preserved rather than as an opportunity for innovation.

• 05.13.26

  States Are Plugging into Experimental Electricity Policy to Find Cost-Saving Success

  Addy Smith, Zoë Brouns

  To tune into the action on the ground, we convened practitioners, state and local officials, advocates, and policy experts to discuss what it will actually take to deploy clean energy faster, modernize electricity…

• 04.29.26

  Public Participation IS the Ingenuity We Need

  Shaibya Dalal, Loren DeJonge Schulman

  Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.

• 04.23.26

  A Plan for Revitalizing the U.S. Auto Industry

  Craig Segall, Priyanka Mohanty, Liane Randolph, Hannah Safford

  Don’t like the Chinese-backed EVs that are undercutting your market? Start with a well-designed statute to strengthen market oversight and competition while also providing American companies with support.

• 04.22.26

  Four Innovations Driving Climate Progress in State Government

  Louise Bedsworth

  Cities and states are best positioned to design policies to accelerate clean energy, innovation, and economic development because they can design approaches that work in different social, political, and economic…