Apr 2, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2] ——- This blog, like my book, has been aimed at members of “the climate coalition” — i.e., the set of people who are open to the idea that the present and future costs of climate change are...
Mar 24, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1] ——- When I was a political science grad student studying regulatory agencies, people in my field used to say that bureaucratic politics scholarship was like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each person...
Mar 15, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Goodbye cruel public opinion … When David Brooks announced earlier this year that he would stop writing his column for the New York Times, he explained things this way: When I came to The Times, I set out to promote a moderate conservative political philosophy...
Mar 8, 2026 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
The 2024 election was an obvious setback for climate policy. But those results may also have had relatively little to do with energy and climate policy, and more to do with voter attitudes toward (what they perceived to be) Democrats’ cultural messaging. One thing...
Feb 28, 2026 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
Decades ago, when I was a grad student living in North Carolina, the televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker had a very popular daily TV show called The PTL Club,* that combined preaching, entertainment and fundraising. The fundraising part eventually landed Jim...
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...
