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To Win on Electricity Prices, Democrats Need Policies That Make Electricity Cheaper

Blue states have higher electricity prices than red states. We need more infrastructure — including fossil fuel infrastructure — to ensure that…

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November 2025

October 2025

Mayonnaise Clinic: Was I Wrong About Gavin Newsom?

Some of you have a bone to pick with me and my Central Air co-hosts.

Oct 31 • 

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How to Decide to Win

A new report has good advice for Democrats on how to stop alienating the electorate.

Oct 30 • 

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Democrats Need to Re-Learn the Valid Reasons to Restrict Immigration

It's not just parochialism or bad economics, let alone bigotry — our fellow citizens have good reasons to oppose uncontrolled migration.

Oct 17 • 

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Introducing Central Air

My new podcast with Ben Dreyfuss and Megan McArdle.

Oct 15 • 

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Why Aren't We All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This (Screwed Up Immigration Under Biden)?

So, who was it?

Oct 2 • 

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September 2025

This Is the Kind of Overregulation that Makes New York Unaffordable

The city council's plan to require plumbers to install all gas appliances in the city is an obstacle to Zohran Mamdani's pledge to freeze rents

Sep 30 • 

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Your Dislike of Charlie Kirk Is Not Interesting Right Now

Or: how liberal monomania about ideology gets in the way of context, discretion and broadly behaving like a normal person.

Sep 19 • 

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The First Step to Winning Back the Senate: Don't Nominate Anyone Who Said 'God Is Non-Binary' On Video

Certainly not in Texas.

Sep 14 • 

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More Democrats Need To Say It: 'Sports Leagues Should Be Organized By Sex'

The overwhelming majority of the public believes this, and it doesn't make them bigots. The view needs to be robustly represented inside our tent.

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Abundance Is a Bipartisan Project

My report from the Abundance 2025 conference, where Democrats and Republicans were refreshingly eager to work together.

Sep 5 • 

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