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Autocracy won't make Russia great ([link removed])
By Will Marshall
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Since his election as president in 2000, Vladimir Putin has methodically consolidated power in his hands with the expressed aim of making Russia great again. Instead, he’s diminished his country’s power and global standing in every respect but one — Moscow’s ability to threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons.

Russian observers have characterized Putin’s increasingly autocratic reign as a tacit pact with Russian society: The Kremlin won’t interfere in the everyday lives of citizens if they stay out of politics. It’s a bad bargain for the Russian people.

For one thing, it’s cost them a rare shot at governing themselves after centuries of czarist and totalitarian despotism. Over the past two decades, Putin has steadily snuffed out post-Soviet Russia’s incipient democracy — rigging elections, jailing dissidents and journalists, suppressing independent civic associations and colluding in the assassination of regime critics at home and around the world.

A genuinely free market economy governed by impartial laws also has been sacrificed on the altar of Putin’s “vertical of power.” He’s enabled a handful of oligarchs to take over former state-owned corporations controlling key assets like, oil, gas and finance in return for their acquiescence in his neo-imperial adventurism.
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New Report: Autonomous Schools Can Help Solve the Problem Behind the Teacher Shortage Problem
By Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of Reinventing America's Schools


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In August, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) released the grimmest “Nation’s Report Card” in 20 years. Between 2020 and 2022, America’s students dropped five points in reading and seven points in math. That bad news almost — but not quite — drowned out the summer’s other major, alarming education news: Teachers, burned out or just plain disgusted, were quitting in droves. As the predominant narrative went, many of the nation’s classrooms might be leaderless come fall.

It’s common knowledge that effective, committed teachers are critical to students’ success. At a time when there is empirical evidence that America’s students are struggling — the NAEP scores are just one indicator — it seems timely to take a deeper dive into the widely reported teacher shortage. One needn’t look very far to find many indicators that our current systems of public schools are not serving teachers well. There is no reason to think things will improve (i.e., increased teacher job satisfaction, increased teacher retention, revived talent pipelines, etc.) unless there is an evolution in the underlying systems where teachers work.

This report will examine the current teacher shortage. There is controversy about its severity and data is missing from several states. There is, however, a plethora of data to learn from regarding teachers’ attitudes toward their profession. Not surprisingly, one thing that teachers have often complained about, micromanagement or, put another way, lack of autonomy in the classroom, remains an issue.
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** Gresser to Warren and Jayapal: Don't charge people with bad faith unless you have evidence of it. Progressives can do better.
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A quick response after reading last Wednesday’s lengthy, startling, and troubling letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo: Don’t charge people with bad faith unless you have evidence of it. Progressives can do better.

By way of introduction, the two Members’ letter continues a correspondence begun in July whose point of departure is a disagreement on digital trade policy matters such as cross-border data flows, divergences in national privacy regulation, and data localization. Sen. Warren and Rep. Jayapal object along left-populist lines to potential Biden administration negotiating positions on some of these topics in trade venues such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council.

Were these disagreements the core of their letters, this would be the standard stuff of Congressional correspondence and advocacy. Digital trade issues are intellectually and technically complex. Conclusions about the best way to define U.S. interests on them can vary in good faith. And while Sen. Warren and Rep. Jayapal may be mistaken, dissent is perfectly legitimate and their rights to their opinions are obvious.
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Why a Power Line Project Can Take 14 Years to Permit, ft. Elan Sykes, PPI's Energy Policy Analyst
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OPEC oil output cut fuels Dems’ gas price fears, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
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UK risks ending Cop26 presidency in disarray over Truss climate policy ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
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The climate law — and its billions — changed everything, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
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** ICYMI: GOP killed permitting reform — giving Democrats a new campaign issue
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By Paul Bledsoe and Elan Sykes
PPI's Strategic Advisor and Energy Analyst
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Over the last two years, Congress has passed a series of landmark bills that together fund more than $500 billion in clean energy investment, by far the largest ever enacted. More importantly, generous tax incentives can spur many trillions in direct private sector investments, creating a powerhouse U.S. advanced energy sector. Yet, right now, a broken U.S. energy permitting system short circuits thousands of major projects, imposing tremendously high costs in time and money to build clean infrastructure projects, if they get built at all.

Congress had an opportunity to fix this roadblock through a permitting reform bill, but despite claiming to support reform, Senate Republicans effectively killed the measure in a nakedly political effort to deny Democrats a popular policy win. Democrats should turn the tables on the GOP, making the economic and climate costs of this hypocritical action a major campaign issue in the upcoming midterm elections.

Ironically, in the name of environmental protection, a perverse process has developed over decades whereby often unnecessary and duplicative government reviews and nuisance lawsuits have pushed average time for permitting to 4.3 years for electricity transmission, 3.5 years for pipelines and 2.7 years for renewable energy generation projects. In the mid-Atlantic and near-Ohio valley alone, more than 2,500 projects are awaiting approval, 95 percent of which involve renewable energy. In fact, a new Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) report finds that without extensive permitting and regulatory reforms, large projected economic benefits and emissions reductions from recent laws would be substantially limited, and fail to meet policy goals.
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RAS Reports: Democrats Stand Up for Charter Schools

On this episode of RAS Reports, Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of the Reinventing America's Schools Project sits down with New Mexico State Senator Siah Correa Hemphill and Representative Joy Garratt to talk about a bill they successfully sponsored and passed into law this legislative session. New Mexico House Bill 43 creates a revolving facility fund that charter schools can access in order to provide high quality buildings for their students.
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Future Pandemic Policy ft. Josh Morrison and Gavriel Kleinwaks

It's the third episode in our series about Effective Altruisum, and Jeremiah is joined by Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks of the organization 1 Day Sooner to discuss the future of pandemic policy. With Covid-19 now an ongoing fact of life, how can we best minimize the harms it will do over the medium to long term future? What role will new vaccine technologies play? Can better air filtration or UV lights play a role? And how can we use these technologies to stop the next pandemic before it happens?

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