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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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Building Toward Better Policymaking, Together

Rebecca Kendall Sept 8, 2026

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.

Our Energy and Environment team writes our Low-Energy Fridays newsletter, which makes energy policy easier to understand.

Low-Energy Fridays

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Low Energy Fridays: What do the midterm results mean for energy policy?

Josiah Neeley Nov 6, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Fridays: Who’s to blame for Daylight Saving Time?

Josiah Neeley Oct 30, 2026

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

Low-Energy Fridays: Is the future of the grid off the grid?

Josiah Neeley Oct 23, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Clean Energy, Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays, Permissionless Innovation, Renewables, Technology and Innovation

Low-Energy Friday: Permissionless Solar

Jordan Nader Oct 16, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Climate, Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Fridays: President Trump = Climate Hero?

Josiah Neeley Oct 9, 2026

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

Low-Energy Fridays: There’s More to a Diesel Ban than Basic Economics

Tom Opdyke Oct 2, 2026

Real Solutions Climate, Energy and Environment, Low-Energy Fridays

Low-Energy Fridays: Where Have All the Hurricanes Gone?

Josiah Neeley Sept 25, 2026

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

Low Energy Fridays: Permitting Reform Remains Close, But So Far

Josiah Neeley Sept 18, 2026

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

Low-Energy Fridays: The Electric Rates are Too Damn High

Josiah Neeley Sept 11, 2026

Newsletters, Real Solutions Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs, Finance and Trade, Low-Energy Fridays, Trade

Low-Energy Fridays: Electricity Trade Is More Important Than the Numbers Suggest

Michael Giberson Sept 4, 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.