Cost escalation in U.S. nuclear power was never inevitable — it reflected policy choice
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 15, 2026
Special interests profiting massively from the renewable fuels requirements claim that the new approval for summer E15 sales will save fuel consumers up to 30 cents per gallon. That is…
By Benjamin Zycher | June 15, 2026
The scientific community functions as a republic—with its own governance of rules and norms, internal politics, and relationships with the states and publics that fund it.
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 11, 2026
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is the basic law governing federal reviews of construction projects’ environmental impacts. Unfortunately, it has evolved into an environmentally destructive monstrosity. Why? Because…
By Benjamin Zycher | November 17, 2025
The bad news for U.S. universities keeps on coming. Last week, Pew Research released the results of a September 2025 poll showing that increasingly large majorities of Republicans and Democrats believe that…
By Roger Pielke | October 21, 2025
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, At minimum, the Trump White House’s new AI Action Plan deserves credit for being honest about what it is: not a blueprint for technocratic governance or navigating a world…
By James Pethokoukis | July 23, 2025
There is little doubt that the emergence of low-orbit satellite services has revolutionized rural broadband connectivity. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, has launched over 5,000 satellites, providing low-latency, fast, and…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 31, 2025