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PPI President Will Marshall for The Hill:
Biden faces down Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has a Siberia-sized chip on his shoulder. He hasn’t gotten over the unraveling of the once-mighty Soviet Union, which he served as a KGB agent, and he doesn’t think the West pays sufficient attention to Russia’s security interests.
What’s a strongman to do? Threaten war, of course. Putin has amassed over 100,000 troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine, which Russia has already invaded once (in 2014) to forcibly annex Crimea.
As Ukrainian forces continue to battle pro-Russia separatists in the country’s Donbas region, a second invasion is a plausible threat. To defuse it, the Biden administration dispatched diplomats to meet their Russian counterparts in Geneva Monday. At Russia’s insistence, neither Ukraine nor European nations were invited to this parley, an omission that reflects Putin’s disdain for Europe and nostalgia for Cold War-style summitry.
Biden faces down Putin
by Will Marshall, President of the
Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill
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BRAND NEW FROM PPI:
New Research from PPI Shows Harmful Impact of the Klobuchar-Grassley Antitrust Bill to American Consumers and Competition
Today, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) released a new research deck on how Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley’s anti-tech antitrust bill, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, could do irreparable harm to the services and products millions of Americans rely on every day.
“The bill is notable for combining very broad language, very heavy penalties, and very narrow grounds for affirmative defense,” said Dr. Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist for the Progressive Policy Institute. “The problem is that this three-way combination goes far beyond imposing normal compliance costs and regulatory burdens, creating huge financial and business risks for even ordinary business decisions.
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Politico got the scoop on PPI's newest hires! Welcome Sarah, Stuart, Jordan, and Malena:
 
Vice News: US Oil Production Will Surge to an All-Time High in 2023
"Increasing demand for oil and resulting emissions growth demonstrates the urgency of passing the electric vehicle and other clean energy incentives in President Biden’s climate plan as soon as possible,” Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate aide now with the Progressive Policy Institute, told VICE News. “But Biden must also walk a political tightrope right now of keeping inflation down and gasoline prices modest to help consumers until climate legislation makes EVs more affordable, accessible, and easy to charge.”
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Center for Biosimilars: Robert Popovian, PharmD, MS, Discusses Biosimilar Progress and Education in the United States
In this interview, Tony Hagen, senior editor for The Center for Biosimilars®, talks with Robert Popovian, PharmD, MS, who serves as chief science policy officer at GHLF, about a recent podcast series the group did to promote wider understanding of biosimilars. Popovian provides his impressions of progress toward biosimilar availability in the United States and the value of biosimilar education for patients and providers.
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Join PPI Vice President and Chief Economist Michael Mandel and other experts to discuss the Great Transatlantic Data Disruption, how it will affect the U.S. and European economies, and what can be done.
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The webinar is part of a series co-sponsored by the Progressive Policy Institute, The 74, and Education Civil Rights Now.
RSVP here!
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ICYMI – Paul Bledsoe, author of a new PPI report titled "The Role of Natural Gas in Limiting European Union Emissions: Key Opportunities to Cut Methane, Coal and CO2" sits down to explain the major implications for U.S. and global climate policy, as well as some of the key recommendations from the report.
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Neoliberal Podcast host Jeremiah Johnson recounts the best books from 2021, including books on gentrification, political organizing, economic growth, comedy's role in society, economic dynamism, the history of evolution, and much more!
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