To learn more about what we do and our most recent accomplishments, please see our 2022 annual report. To dive deeper into our distinctive vision, policy ideas, and approach to advocacy, explore the writings below or visit our “Key Initiatives.”
Theory
The Center Can Hold: Public Policy for an Age of Extremes
Brink Lindsey, Will Wilkinson, Steve Teles, Samuel Hammond
Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance, Economy
Brink Lindsey, Samuel Hammond
State Capacity: What Is It, How We Lost It, and How to Get It Back
Brink Lindsey
Competitive Egalitarianism: How to Structure Markets
Steve Teles
Rule and Ruin, p. 398-402
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Culture Eats Policy
Jennifer Pahlka
The Future is Faction
Steve Teles and Rob Saldin
Moderation series
Various authors
The Procedure Fetish
Nicholas Bagley
Policy
Climate
Transmission Stalled: Siting Challenges for Interregional Transmission
Liza Reed
Legal and Administrative Pitfalls that May Confront Climate Regulation
Jonathan Adler
Carbon Pricing and Regulations Compared: An Economic Explainer
Shuting Pomerleau and Ed Dolan
Border Adjustments in a Carbon Tax
Shuting Pomerleau
This Is How a Carbon Tax Comes Back
Kristin Eberhard
Criminal Justice
To End Mass Incarceration, Focus on Crime Reduction
Greg Newburn
The Need for Increased Funding for HOPE/SCF
Richard Hahn
Safer, Smarter, and Cheaper: The Promise of Targeted Home Confinement with Electronic Monitoring
Greg Newburn
Reconstructing Justice: Race, Generational Divides, and the Fight Over “Defund the Police”
Michael Fortner
State Violence, Legitimacy, and the Path to Public Safety
David Kennedy
Immigration
Principles of Immigration Reform
Kristie De Peña
The Strategic Case for Refugee Resettlement
Idean Salehyan
The Case for Updating Schedule A
Cecilia Esterline
Social Policy
Reclaiming the GOP’s Legacy on the Child Tax Credit
Joshua McCabe
The Conservative Case for a Child Allowance
Samuel Hammond and Robert Orr
An Agenda for Abundant Housing
Alex Armlovich and Andrew Justus
The U.S. Has Much to Gain from More Doctors
Robert Orr
Do We Really Want Expanded Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs?
Ed Dolan
A Social Safety Net for an Age of Uncertainty
Ed Dolan
Practice
How Democrats Can Recover from Their Legislative Failures
Kodiak Hill Davis and Geoff Kabaservice