Todd Tucker

I'm on @volts.wtf podcast today on the lessons from our new @rooseveltinstitute.org book: "Building Up in 2029: Making Green Statecraft Durable." We talked about how equity stakes, SCOTUS reform, & subfederalization are climate policy. www.volts.wtf/p/could-we-u...

Saturday! Turnstile Will Play a Free Benefit Show at the Washington Monument washingtonian.com/2026/10/08/t...

Congress is weighing new permitting legislation, which makes this a good moment to ask what Biden-era industrial policy actually built, and where. In a new blog, @joepeck.co.uk looks at where IIJA, CHIPS, and IRA dollars went, and how much has been spent. 🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/biden-e...

Krugman is a liberal economist but even still 10 years ago I couldn't imagine him calling for expropriation and (temporary) nationalization of a major company. What stage of capitalism is this? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

This administration has opened the door to new industrial policy tools, from equity stakes to emergency powers on energy policy. What would it look like for the left to use those tools for good? @dwallacewells.bsky.social on planning for the next Congress: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...

🧵 I want to make one point about the federal permitting bill. Before I do, I'd just encourage everyone who's interested in the details to listen to this podcast, which covers them ... extensively. There's a lot of complicated stuff in there & the cartoonish portrayals you see online are misleading.

I'm honored to be joining a panel discussion on Disability Employment and Economic Security on October 21 in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Work should be a pathway to economic security, but too many disabled people continue to face barriers that limit...

Today CPE is publishing some revisionist history about BIL and IRA: Because the laws didn't touch muni markets and focused more on infra grants than loan authorities, they didn't adequately juice local economic development. Here's how we can change that: publicenterprise.org/long-term-li...

TODAY! NYC Climate Week! 130 pm. Midtown. Come on down! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...

New from our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social: As AI companies push for voluntary safety rules, the latest warnings about AI risks make one thing clear: we can’t just hand the industry the keys to its own oversight. ⬇️

Jake Sullivan calls for a Strategic Investment Fund: "Loans and guarantees would stretch each public dollar and crowd in private capital, and convertible and equity-like instruments could give taxpayers a share of upside when investments succeed." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Bill Graves, the Republican governor of Kansas from 1995 to 2003, writes an oped today endorsing the Democratic nominee for Senate in the state (Adam Hamilton, who's challenging Senator Marshall). www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

“Democrats would be better advised to follow the example of Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans,” this WSJ oped says about court reform. They thought the courts were so partisan they abolished entire circuit courts and prevented the Supreme Court from meeting for a year! www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...

Jared Abbott: "if the goal is passing a New Deal–scale economic agenda to ensure economic security for all ... as Jentleson says his is, electing more Landrieus and Manchins amounts to a Pyrrhic victory, because they will undermine it at every step." jacobin.com/2026/09/jent...

New episode from @volts.wtf: @toddntucker.com discusses our 2029 climate policy agenda and how a future administration can build on the new tools of economic statecraft this administration has put into practice—and actually employ them toward positive, environmental ends. Listen 🎧:

A really terrific report from @rooseveltinstitute.org on "How to Make Green Statecraft Durable." Lots of great ideas here. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Excited to be heading to NYC for Climate Week this month, and to be speaking on this panel on Monday 21st. Getting clean industrial policy right is good for the country, good for the economy, good for citizens and good for the climate. Looking forward to discussing!

And for more on what Trump’s “golden shares” could mean for future progressive economic policy, catch up with our Director for Industrial Policy, @toddntucker.com ⬇️

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Government equity stakes can be a powerful tool for industrial policy, but only when they’re structured to advance the public interest. A new @politico.com piece cites our research on how public ownership done right can help advance climate, energy, and labor goals. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

In NYC September 21 for Climate Week? Come by @rooseveltinstitute.org offices for a panel discussion on The Future of Clean Industrial Policy with @americanprogress.bsky.social @mcortonscott.bsky.social @lcefuk.bsky.social @cleanenergycanada.org + more! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...

Great @thedigradio.bsky.social w/ @astra.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social and @madisoncondon.bsky.social At 1:40, Madison shares her National Climate Service idea. For more, see her "Building Up in 2029" chapter from @rooseveltinstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/todd...

17. Last but definitely not least, @tedfertik.bsky.social calls for greater empowerment of labor in the next phase of the clean energy transition. It's not just normatively desirable, but good for making policy stickier. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

If you're in Seattle, come and see me chat with Leah about her new book on Sep. 14 at Town Hall!

Little-known governing hack: Find out what things people like, then give them that

How Golden Share in US Steel might give the Steelworkers' union a leg up in contract negotiations, and set standards at other firms as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

New from @shahrzadshams.bsky.social: Prediction markets are becoming increasingly entrenched in major American institutions. Across sports, media and finance, these once-niche platforms are being woven into institutional infrastructure, data and marketing. That creates a problem for regulation. 🧵

"It makes a tremendous bit of sense for Democrats to play it straight, unlike Roosevelt. We live in a populist moment in which people care more about authenticity than institutional abstractions. Everyone will know what this is really about."

16. CEA alum @jonasnahm.com and @danieldrisc.com turn to the question of America's growth model - and how different clean production strategies can lean into it, or may need to tilt against it. They call for an honest reckoning with the trade-offs of either. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.

"The Hayekian conclusion always remained contingent — and only true so long as governments lacked the necessary informational and computational capacity for central planning to outdo free markets. The question is whether AI changes that," writes @martinsandbu.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/cd3f...

Today on Volts: even as he is dismantling climate policy, Trump is demonstrating how to use the tools of aggressive state capitalism. A new volume of essays from the @rooseveltinstitute.org argues that those tools could be harnessed for green policy. I talk with RI's @toddntucker.com about it.

Canada should rename Lake Superior as Lake Epstein.

15. @joeldodge07.bsky.social uncovers the hidden history of publicly-owned factories in the US, and shows how they could be used to bypass permitting and other challenges that have bedeviled the clean energy buildout. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

The business model of spam fundraising depends on hooking a group of elderly donors who give at a disturbing frequency, summing to sizable amounts. Most of them don't appear especially wealthy. I've compiled a handful of these cases. There are thousands of cases like these in the FEC data. 🧵

Consistent with the judicial philosophy that the law exists only to bind Democrats but not Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

14. @leahstokes.bsky.social takes us to the world of production, and how support for electrification can put US manufacturing on sounder footing. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...