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Not Just Suburban Sprawl — Dense Places Can Still Build
Learning from DC and other Downtowns
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Jess Remington
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Student visas are a critical pipeline for high-skilled, highly-paid talent
Critics of high-skilled immigration like to portray temporary student visas as a source of cheap labor, making it easy for employers to undercut the…
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Connor O'Brien
AI: To Steer or Not To Steer
A few years after he invented the laser, Theodore H Maiman was still tinkering with its potential uses in medicine and other fields.
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Nathan Goldschlag

May 2025

The U.S. loses most international graduates it trains. That problem is about to get worse.
The last two weeks have yielded a series of blows to the United States’ ability to attract and retain top talent from abroad.
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Connor O'Brien
Trump’s top-down economic agenda needs bottom-up perspective
Kenan Fikri is a senior fellow at the Economic Innovation Group.
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Kenan Fikri
Tariffs and Manufacturing Jobs: Three Big Problems
“American steelworkers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen… They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters…
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Ben Glasner
Introducing the Trade Policy Dashboard
How To Know if Trump's Tariff Strategy is Actually Working
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John Lettieri

April 2025

Tired of Winning: Why Peter Navarro Hates BMW
It takes a special kind of economic logic to look at a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing facility and see a plot to harm America’s economic and…
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John Lettieri
The Abundance housing policy that already exists
The big idea in “Abundance,” the new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, is that if we want more stuff — more housing, better healthcare, cleaner…
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Adam Ozimek
Designing a Gold Card Visa to Maximize Benefits to American Communities
In early March, President Trump first proposed a “Gold Card Visa” for high-net-worth individuals to immigrate to the United States, with a suggested…
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Sam Peak
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Connor O'Brien

March 2025

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