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Closer to Home

Getting beyond the transportation debate of city versus suburb

Is Climate Change a Foreign Policy Issue?

Opportunity now, not prophecies of doom, should spur America to become a global leader.

Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate

How moving beyond the scientism of the nuclear debate could deliver a long-awaited climate breakthrough — and generate fresh ideas for a more productive politics.

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Yucca Mountain: A Post-Mortem

On how President Obama killed the planned nuclear-waste repository

Infrastructure Policy: Lessons from American History

Place-Conscious Transportation Policy

From: Place and Placelessness in America

Bridges and the Bottom Line

Why infrastructure must always be a matter of politics

A ‘Third Way,’ Or a Bridge to Nowhere?

The FCC’s Difficult Path Toward Net Neutrality

Is Water a Human Right?

On market solutions to the world’s “water crisis”

China’s Space Ambitions—and Ours