Seventeen essays outline a clean energy action plan for a future Democratic president.

Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.

New York City has a growing pharmacy gap, and the culprit is corporate power.

New York City has a growing pharmacy gap, and the culprit is corporate power.

Public factories once helped America fight monopoly pricing. A new push would revive them to lower drug costs and ease supply bottlenecks.

The United States has entered an era of short supply: in recent years, Americans have faced episodic shortages in semiconductors and other critical goods during COVID-19 shutdowns, energy price shocks...

Our Work Public factories can be powerful means to support production of critical goods. Policymakers at all levels of government have deployed government-owned production facilities throughout Americ...

Reasonable people might think the DPA is no longer serving its purpose and should be abandoned. We argue this would be a short-sighted mistake, given the likely severity of the crises the US will soon...

Lawmakers today should study the Energy Security Act of 1980.

The Trump administration is investing in publicly traded companies — and it’s sending stocks soaring higher.

Over the last few months, the second Trump administration has embarked upon a spree of deals taking equity stakes in private companies.

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Trump's version of "state capitalism" is just another facet of his self-dealing authoritarianism. It may enrich his family but will beggar the economy.

Trump’s industrial policy includes equity stakes, profit-sharing, and golden shares in major corporations. The outcome could be disastrous.

Trump’s industrial policy includes equity stakes, profit-sharing, and golden shares in major corporations. The outcome could be disastrous.