Law
Making Communities Safe, Without the Police
Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.
Cyberespionage with Benefits
In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.
Politics and Prevention
New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.
Whose Suffering Matters?
The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.
Economic Policy with a Mission
Final response: Missions concern far more than scientific and industrial development. They are ultimately about public value creation.
Against Economic Nationalism
A crucial element is missing in recent calls to revive industrial policy: a robust internationalist vision for restructuring the global economy.
What About Workers?
Without centering labor in industrial policy, both the economics and politics will fail.
A Flight Plan That Fails
While this call for moonshots is stirring, it ultimately says too little about how to turn this vision into reality.
Back Down to Earth
The “moonshots” proposed could not be accomplished without a transformation of politics as we know it.
Industrial Policy Requires Experimentation
Setting a mission requires bold leadership, but following through requires learning and iterative experimentation.
State of Emergency
The answer cannot lie in the sound creation of an “industrial policy,” however ambitious. We need wholesale structural reform.
Why We Need an Agency for National Technology Strategy
While missions are important, even more important are new institutions that will cut a path across them.
Industrial Policy’s Comeback
We need a mission-oriented approach to the economy that embraces an active role for government in spurring growth and innovation.
Beyond Choice
What Is Infrastructure, Anyway?
The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.
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