Apr 25, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5] ——- As of Monday I will have taught my last class as a tenured professor, and I will be considered “retired” as of May 1. I will continue to do some teaching at UT-Austin, but it feels...
Apr 18, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3 / #4] ——- This is my penultimate “being curious-not-judgmental is good (energy) politics” post, and this one addresses how and why the climate coalition sometimes focuses on the wrong things. For...
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...
Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
Finally, pundits are focusing less on policy victory or convincing voters that their political adversaries are evil, and more on the issue of whether our liberal democracy can be saved, and if so, how. Until recently, those at the forefront of the effort to preserve...
