On climate grounds, liberals have generally opposed the expansion of fossil fuels and promoted clean energy alternatives. The conservative response to climate has been both fragmented and shifting. But the emerging reality is deeper than debates over optimal climate policy. Policymakers on either side of the aisle have effectively embraced, to varying degrees, energy obstructionism…
Read MoreIt is abundantly clear that America must build more energy projects. Clinging to the ability to slow down and block disliked projects may have short-term political appeal. But in the long run, it only serves to maintain a status quo that is becoming increasingly untenable in the face of challenges such as load growth from AI, decreased reliability from aging infrastructure, and climate change. A better system is possible.
Read MoreInfrastructure is part of a broader debate about energy and climate, where commercial, regulatory, legal, and technical factors collide. Because of the long life of these assets, contemporary investment choices can have deeply consequential implications, which only intensifies energy debates. Misallocating investment can lead to long-term financial burdens or chronically fragile physical systems. In addition to policy debates, choices about infrastructure are complicated by extenuating factors, including new technologies, increasing incidence of physical shocks over time, and uncertainty about the timing, magnitude, and location of load growth. With all of these swirling uncertainties, it is imperative that industry and government coalesce around a singularity of vision and purpose in refining and expanding our electricity infrastructure…
Read MoreThere is no world in which data center demand is hermetically sealed from that of everyday electricity consumers. It would be bizarre to insist on this cordon, given the importance of AI and its own inherent characteristics as a network.
Read MoreDonald Trump famously promised Americans they would get tired of winning. For sixteen years, the nation of Hungary was run by a man named Urban Winner. On April 12, Hungarians voted that man, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, out of office. But while Hungarian voters may have tired of being winners, they do not seem to have tired of being Magyars. In Hungary’s 199-seat parliament, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party defeated Orbán’s Fidesz party by a margin of eighty-nine seats. Why did Hungarians decide to vote for this man for sixteen years? And why did they stop? How did the qualities that made Orbán popular early in his tenure become liabilities after years in power?…
Read MoreLike many thoughtful works, West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, written by Mohammed Soliman, begins with a grievance. Upon his arrival at Georgetown University in his mid-twenties, Soliman did not find the kind of foreign policy thinking he identified with Washington, D.C. “Much of the scholarly work on the Middle East felt outdated, sometimes by a generation or two,” he writes. Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, Soliman asks “where is the Middle East, and who defines its boundaries?” This question motivates West Asia…
Read MoreThe Trump administration’s May 2025 executive orders calling for increased nuclear energy output marked a watershed moment for the industry. The results have been nothing short of astounding. In less than a year, the U.S. government has announced multibillion-dollar awards for domestic uranium enrichment projects, unlocked surplus plutonium for reactor use, and launched the reactor pilot…
Read MoreIn the 1950s, the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha carried passengers from Minneapolis to Chicago in roughly seven hours. Today, Amtrak’s Empire Builder covers that same distance in just under eight. The New York Central once ran forty-two daily passenger trains between Buffalo and Cleveland, with the 187-mile trip taking three hours. Today, Amtrak’s Lake Shore…
Read MoreChina’s domestic semiconductor industry has had to respond to the challenge of U.S. export controls by working with industrial ministries in Beijing and key local governments, such as in Shenzhen and Shanghai, to move the entire sector up the innovation curve and value chain on a compressed timetable. It is now clear that the immediate…
Read MoreOn a normal summer day in June, Manny Guerrero, a soft-spoken Vietnam War veteran living in Las Vegas, picked up the phone and was told he had beaten the odds and won. The voice on the other end claimed to be from Publishers Clearing House and quickly painted a vivid picture: a check for $3,500,000,…
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