Experts in the News

"Contrary to what we sometimes hear, the sky isn’t falling, renewables won’t cause public education funding to crater and there are multiple possible solutions to fill this modest gap," wrote public finance fellows John Diamond and Jorge Barro.

Many of the more moderate Republicans in the Texas Legislature are retiring, said fellow Mark Jones, opening the door to more conservative members replacing them — and after 2021 redistricting, their odds of winning are high.

Liberal democratic countries are increasingly outsourcing the problem of uncontrolled migration, but this strategy is not viable in the long run, writes Kelsey Norman, the director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program. In this article Norman contends that the only way wealthy states can solve the problem is by making regular avenues of migration more accessible.

This essay was awarded a 2021 Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize by Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs.

For Turkey and the UAE, "confrontational approaches have produced little in the way of tangible gains," said fellow Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. "Refocusing on areas of economic and commercial cooperation can offer the hope of win-wins for both sides."

Once, Texas wasn’t the only state on its own electric grid. But after FDR’s New Deal, it was the only state that could stay independent with reliable power — usually. Then came 2021’s Winter Storm Uri. The Center for Energy Studies’ Julie Cohn explained how we got to this point.