Special Guest Casey Burgat of the R Street Institute joins Josh, Laura, and Matt to talk about congressional staff.

Analysis Electoral Reform, Governance

The Maine Crisis: Separating Selection from Election

Jonathan Madison July 10, 2026

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

Low-Energy Fridays: Are data centers increasing electricity prices?

Josiah Neeley July 10, 2026

Real Solutions State Policy, Texas

Texas and Eminent Domain Law: Better Than Elsewhere, but Still Room for Improvement

Steven Greenhut, Josiah Neeley July 9, 2026

Analysis Budget and Spending Reform, Federal Government Affairs, Governance

Debt and National Security Part 1: Borrowing Away Military Flexibility

July 9, 2026

Real Solutions Cyber Threats, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Policy, Federal Government Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Technology and Innovation

Router Autarky, Part I

Nicholas Thielman July 8, 2026

Newsletters Behavioral Health, Healthier Communities, Opioid Harm Reduction, Safer Solutions

Safer Solutions: What To Do with National Opioid Settlement Funds

Jessica Shortall, Chelsea Boyd July 8, 2026

Analysis Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technology, General Emerging Technologies, Technology and Innovation

Model Panic: How Fear of Open-Source AI Is Ceding Ground to China

Mark Dalton July 7, 2026

Real Solutions South, State Policy

Finding oases in America’s “news deserts,” a view from Georgia

Marc Hyden July 7, 2026

Op-Eds Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Mid-Atlantic, Opioid Harm Reduction, State Policy

How Maryland is expanding access to addiction treatment

Robert Melvin July 6, 2026 The Baltimore Sun

Op-Eds Insurance, South, State Policy, Tort Reform

As insurance rates fall, tort reform takes much-deserved victory lap

Marc Hyden July 6, 2026 Newnan Times-Herald