Feb 20, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Last year Republicans in Congress tripled the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budget, and the agency is establishing a permanent presence (renting offices, etc.) in communities all over the country. The rapid doubling of the number of ICE agents has created...
Jan 28, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney’s January speech at Davos on the demise of the “rules based international order” garnered a lot of well-deserved praise for acknowledging the United States’ abandonment of that system, and it’s implications for the rest of...
Jan 20, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
We humans are biased toward understandings of reality that include some minimum level of optimism about the future. But if we ignore the bad news, we shut ourselves off from parts of the truth. Which brings me to the Supreme Court’s forthcoming Slaughter...
Jan 15, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
There is ever-more misinformation and fakery on the Internet every day. We learned recently that a large percentage of political accounts posting on X are fake, and the fake accounts tilt toward the ideological right.[1] Facebook has become littered with completely...
Dec 20, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Note: This will be my last post of the year. Back in early January.] There’s been a lot of energy transition backsliding lately, some of it inevitable and some of it not. In bad political times it’s difficult to pair hope with clear-eyed realism. And I...
Dec 10, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Research into online filter bubbles confirms that Democrats and Republicans actually live in two different realities. That is, their beliefs about what is true differ in significant ways. And because the beliefs held by people in other bubbles have been deemed...
