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 10, 2026 | Blog, Democracy and Transitions to Authoritarianism, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
[Previous posts in this series: #1 / #2 / #3] Many people are familiar with this Will Rogers quote: “I don’t belong to any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Democrats have always understood that they are a big tent ideologically; and given...
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...
