Regions

Six protectionists walk into a bar...

How different factions on the Right are thinking about tariffs in 2025.

Feb 7 • 

Connor O'Brien

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November 2024

How DOGE can cut waste: Pay government to cut itself

Source ideas from rank-and-file bureaucrats and cut them in on the savings.

Nov 26, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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May 2024

D.C. is making childcare more expensive without tangibly helping kids

"Just one more degree, bro. I swear, bro. It will work this time."

May 16, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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April 2024

How Asia Works author Joe Studwell on industrial policy lessons for the U.S., state capacity, and corporate culture

Revisiting an industrial policy classic a decade later.

Apr 9, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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January 2024

Avoiding AI-induced "energy gentrification"

As in housing, the path to stability is through abundance.

Jan 29, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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What is industrial policy for, anyway?

Learning all the wrong lessons from the epic fall of U.S. Steel.

Jan 16, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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Talent is your city's best insurance policy

Economic resilience is ultimately about people and the skills they possess.

Jan 2, 2024 • 

Connor O'Brien

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December 2023

How is Washington D.C. doing?

A look at demographics, crime, transit, schools, and housing.

Dec 18, 2023 • 

Connor O'Brien

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November 2023

One weird trick to attract startups to your city

Why haven't you set up a Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence program yet?

Nov 30, 2023

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Banning self-driving cars will not atone for urban planning’s sins

Activists for safer streets might instead make them more dangerous.

Nov 8, 2023

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A paradox at the heart of American bureaucracy

Making something an urgent public priority creates new roadblocks to its execution.

Nov 1, 2023

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October 2023

Industrial policy needs immigration reform

History shows us we cannot get industrial policy right (or out-compete China) without skilled immigration.

Oct 26, 2023

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