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Real Insights: Deep conversations and real insights about leadership, democracy, and culture.

Sign up for our Real Insights series, written by our Executive Director Erica Schoder, featuring deep conversations with a diverse range of experts, authors, and leaders about the intersection of leadership and issues critical to our civic discourse, democracy, and culture.

Real Insights

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Newsletters Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: Lessons from 20 Years of Peacebuilding

Erica Schoder April 7, 2026

Newsletters Governance, Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: Rand Paul Needs Someone to Disagree With

Erica Schoder March 17, 2026

Analysis, Newsletters Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: The Bright Line Between Words and Violence

Erica Schoder Nov 10, 2025

Analysis, Newsletters America 250, Our Organization, Real Insights

What can we be doing today that fireproofs liberal principles?

Erica Schoder Sept 16, 2025

Analysis, Newsletters Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: The Human Venn Diagram, A Conversation with Christina Wallace

Erica Schoder June 26, 2025

Analysis, Newsletters Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: Finding Meaning in the Microcosm—A Conversation with Jonah Goldberg

Erica Schoder May 29, 2025

Analysis, Newsletters Our Organization, Real Insights

Real Insights: Trust, Freedom, and the Future—A Conversation with Lenore Skenazy

Erica Schoder April 29, 2025

Hear from R Street’s leadership: Insights rooted in freedom, evidence, and practical reforms.

Read news from R Street’s Executive Team and learn about what our organization is up to.

Executive Team Updates

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Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

The Knowledge in This Room

Erica Schoder June 16, 2026

In the News Artificial Intelligence, Executive Team Updates, Our Organization, Technology and Innovation

The Knowledge in this Room

Erica Schoder June 1, 2026

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

Sighting New Milestones; Always Improving

Jeff Vanderslice April 21, 2026

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

What We Keep, What We Leave Behind

Chad Russell Feb 18, 2026

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

With Gratitude—And a Vision for a Stronger 2026

Sabrina Schaeffer Dec 10, 2025

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

In Praise of Strong Women: Balancing the Scales

Erica Schoder Sept 23, 2025

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Our Organization

Leading with Cultural Bravery

Chad Russell June 13, 2025

Newsletters Executive Team Updates, Federal Government Affairs, Governance, Our Organization

What Republican Motherhood Taught Me about Civic Responsibility

Sabrina Schaeffer March 13, 2025

Low-Energy Fridays: Every Friday we take a complicated energy policy idea and bring it to the 101 level.

Philip Rossetti writes our Low-Energy Fridays newsletter, which makes energy policy easier to understand.

Low-Energy Fridays

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Newsletters, Real Solutions Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays, State Policy

Low-Energy Friday: Growing Electricity Use Lowers Rates—Until It Doesn’t

Michael Giberson June 19, 2026

Newsletters Clean Energy, Energy and Environment, Energy Subsidies, Environmental Regulation, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Friday: Ethanol policy is a hot mess—literally

Josiah Neeley June 12, 2026

Newsletters Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Energy Regulatory Reform, Federal Government Affairs, FERC, Low-Energy Fridays, State Policy

Low-Energy Fridays: Want Transmission Projects Completed Faster? Try Competition

Josiah Neeley June 5, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Fossil Fuels, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Fridays: Should we junk the gas tax?

Josiah Neeley May 29, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays, South, State Policy

Low-Energy Fridays: The NextEra/Dominion Merger Highlights the Need for Competition

Tom Opdyke May 22, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Low-Energy Fridays, Nuclear

Low-Energy Fridays: How do we minimize security risks from uranium enrichment?

Philip Rossetti May 15, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Low-Energy Fridays, Natural Gas, Technology and Innovation

Low-Energy Fridays: Energy Affordability Check-In

Philip Rossetti May 8, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Low-Energy Fridays, Technology and Innovation

Low-Energy Fridays: How to Survive the Great Helium Shortage of 2026

Josiah Neeley April 30, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Energy Regulatory Reform, Federal Government Affairs, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Fridays: The Transformer Shortage Has a Washington Backstory

Michael Giberson April 24, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Clean Energy, Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, General Emerging Technologies, Low-Energy Fridays, Renewables, Technology and Innovation

Low-Energy Fridays: Is space exploration good for energy innovation?

Philip Rossetti April 17, 2026

Safer Solutions: Every two weeks we discuss a complicated harm reduction topic in straight-forward terms and highlight policy solutions.

Chelsea Boyd (cboyd@rstreet.org) and Jessica Shortall (jshortall@rstreet.org) are the lead authors of this Safer Solutions—a newsletter highlighting real policy approaches to harm reduction. Please reach out if you have comments or suggestions for future topics we can cover.