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Reed Galen, the author of The Home Front on Substack, is President of JoinTheUnion.us, a pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defending American democracy and defeating authoritarian candidates.

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  1. Harris Has the Momentum to Beat Trump
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    Harris Has the Momentum to Beat Trump

    Jul 29, 2024 Reed Galen welcomes the vigor that the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee has brought to the presidential race.

  2. Why Republicans Go Crawling Back to Donald Trump
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    Why Republicans Go Crawling Back to Donald Trump

    May 30, 2024 Reed Galen sees the fecklessness of figures like William Barr as proof of the sorry state of the American political class.

  3. Why Trump Can’t Win
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    Why Trump Can’t Win

    Mar 6, 2024 Reed Galen shows why the numbers do not favor the presumptive Republican nominee in November's US presidential election.

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    The Improving Economics and Worsening Geopolitics of Clean Energy

    Daniel Gros warns that political obstacles are preventing the widespread uptake of low-cost green technologies.
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    Industrial Policy’s Deceptive New Clothes

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    If the new "industrial strategy" is offering ideas for better public governance, it is useful. But it becomes positively dangerous when it turns to the private sector, where state interventions inevitably undermine competition, disrupt price signals, and dampen the motivation to innovate.

     sees little reason to support the case for renewed government interventions in the private sector.
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    A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

    Dani Rodrik

    It may be impossible simultaneously to combat climate change, boost the middle class in advanced economies, and reduce global poverty. Under current policy trajectories, any combination of two goals appears to come at the expense of the third.

     weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.
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    The Choice Confronting American Voters

    Koichi Hamada warns that electing a president who refuses to accept defeat could jeopardize not only US democracy.
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    Economic Theory for the Real World

    James K. Galbraith

    Although policies based on mainstream neoclassical economics, famously enshrined in the Washington Consensus, have clearly failed, economic theory has remained in a state of paralyzed confusion. What has been missing is a full shift to modern modes of thought informed by contemporary science.

     offers a new conceptual framework based on twenty-first-century science and simple observation.
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    Climate Security and Geopolitics

    Ian Bremmer

    Although multilateral efforts to address climate change are not well served by deepening geopolitical rivalries or the apparent trend toward global economic fragmentation, that doesn’t mean governments have abandoned the pursuit of net-zero emissions. Instead, the process has become more competitive – and more complex.

     considers the international political dynamics of current energy, trade, and environmental policies.
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    The Climate Stakes of the US Election

    Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what another Donald Trump presidency would mean for the country’s economic and energy security.
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    China’s Climate Balancing Act

    Zongyuan Zoe Liu explains how decarbonization and climate security have been integrated into the government’s broader agenda.
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    The Climate-Conflict Nexus

    Kyungmee Kim shows how wars and geopolitical tensions are hindering progress on climate-change mitigation and adaptation.

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