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November/December 2025

Rural Revival

No, College Degrees Aren’t Losing Their Value

Trump’s Industrial Policy: What’s Right and Wrong

How to Crush the American Battery Boom

To Create Abundant Housing, Ignore the YIMBY Playbook

Trump Promised a Shipbuilding Boom. He’s Sinking It Instead

Hitting His Stride

Six Overlooked Reasons California’s Community NEWS Act Is ‘A Big Deal’

Big, Ugly Changes to SNAP Are Hitting County Budgets

The AI Alignment That Can Save Us

Taming the AI Monster

AI Has an Anti-Woman Problem. Here’s How to Fix It

The Unheralded End of Mass Incarceration