Last month, Democracy Journal published an essay by Saule Omarova and me on the need for using industrial policy as a tool to wind down socially harmful or not useful industries. You can read the essay here, my Twitter thread here, and the unspooled version here.

I have a new piece at Foreign Affairs with Felicia Wong entitled “A Tale of Two Industrial Policies: How America and Europe Can Turn Trade Tensions Into Climate Progress.” To unpack it, I wrote a thread on Twitter (unrolled version here.)

In December, we got news that the Monkey Cage blog and Washington Post would be parting ways. As someone who has benefitted enormously from the editors at that outlet, I find that a real shame. To commemorate about seven years of joyous collaboration, here’s a Twitter thread (and unrolled version).

2022: we cried, we laughed, we transformed the American economy and avoided getting shellacked for it. As the year comes to a close, I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate some wins; express gratitude to family, friends, and colleagues; and share the tunes that saw us through it all. …

Last week, I posted some reflections on the Roosevelt Institute forum entitled “Progressive Industrial Policy: 2022 and Beyond.” You can watch the videos here, read my blog here, Twitter thread here, and unrolled thread here. We had nearly 300 RSVPs, 17 speakers, 40 members of the press, and have gotten…

Over the weekend, I took a look at some of the recent press cycle debate over Biden’s student debt cancellation, and the role that economists and economic reasoning are playing in it. It was also a great chance to re-read Stephanie Mudge, Beth Popp Berman, and Daniel Hirschman. See the…

Jamelle Bouie had another great NYT column on what Democrats should do by way of legislative agenda if they retain Congress. I riffed on his notion that the new agenda should be social policy rather than industrial policy, and whether these were not more related than distinct, on Twitter here…

The Biden administration made a huge announcement this week with its decision to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt per eligible borrower. My colleagues at the Roosevelt Institute Suzanne Kahn and Joe Stiglitz had important pieces putting this in context, and pushing back against the narrative that this would…

Jesse Jenkins and some other folks posted earlier this week about whether we need a radically simpler build out process for clean energy, and whether communities blocking projects had too much power. I had a thread with some of my reflections on what we can learn from trade shocks and…