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Todd N. Tucker, Sameera Fazili, Jane Flegal, Jennifer Harris, and K. Sabeel Rahman discuss their new report Industrial Policy Synergies: Reflections from Biden Administration Alumni on stage at the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2023.
** An Industrial Policy Moment
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Once described by the IMF as “the policy that shall not be named,” industrial policy is now central to the Biden administration’s economic agenda.
The six authors of this week’s new Roosevelt report had a lot to do with that.
In Industrial Policy Synergies: Reflections from Biden Administration Alumni ([link removed]) , Sameera Fazili, Jane Flegal, Jennifer Harris, Janelle Jones, K. Sabeel Rahman, and Tim Wu offer reflections on the passage and early implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS and Science Act, and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
And they paint a dynamic picture of what’s to come.
“[T]hese perspectives share a common belief that leaving it to the market to decide which industries survive and thrive is a recipe for economic vulnerability,” Roosevelt’s Todd N. Tucker writes in the collection’s foreword ([link removed]) .
“What the administration is trying to do is not just maximize the number of a given widget in the economy, but unleash a self-reinforcing and inclusive growth dynamic.”
Read each essay:
* Industrial Policy + Macroeconomic Policy ([link removed]) by Sameera Fazili
* Industrial Policy + Climate Policy ([link removed]) by Jane Flegal
* Industrial Policy + Trade Policy ([link removed]) by Jennifer Harris
* Industrial Policy + Labor Policy ([link removed]) by Janelle Jones
* Industrial Policy + Inclusion Policy ([link removed]) by K. Sabeel Rahman
* Industrial Policy + Competition Policy ([link removed]) by Tim Wu
For more about the collection, watch video from our April 25 launch event ([link removed]) in Washington, DC, and read event takeaways ([link removed]) from Tucker and Isabel Estevez.
** How Culture Warriors Seized the Right
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Once the foot soldiers of the right-wing movement, social conservatives are increasingly setting the agenda, arguing for a state that takes an active role in shaping and preserving traditional institutions like the nuclear family. However, this vision of family offered by social conservatives is inextricably linked with a disturbingly retrograde view of gender, sexuality, reproductive rights, and American history.
On a new episode of How to Save a Country ([link removed]) , hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky talk to Julie Kohler—writer and host of the podcast White Picket Fence ([link removed]) —about the role social conservatives played in American politics in the past, and the increasing power this coalition wields in politics today.
“If you really endorse this notion that the state should be playing a role in establishing moral culture, what you can end up with is a comfort with, if not open embrace of, illiberal authoritarianism,” Kohler says.
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** What We’re Reading
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A Case for Climate Optimism, and Pragmatism, from John Podesta ([link removed]) - The New Yorker
How to Fix Crumbling Child Care Infrastructure ([link removed]) - Bloomberg
Harry Belafonte Dragged Us into the Future ([link removed]) - Vulture
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