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The Real Districting Culprit

It isn’t gerrymandering. It’s the existence of single-member districts in the first place. It was never designed to help minority voters.

By Cecilia Muñoz

How to Build an Affordable Energy Future

To unleash America’s energy potential, we need reforms that are different, and go far deeper, than the permitting proposals Congress is considering right now.

By Manish Bapna

A More Progressive Abundance

There’s a deal abundists and community leaders can strike that could let the two sides work together.

By Raj Nayak

The Democracy-Prosperity Link

How Donald Trump’s anti-democratic actions threaten America’s long-term prosperity.

By David Madland

We Could Have an Inexpensive, Clean-Energy Future

For 70 years, irrational fear of low-level radiation blocked the path to an energy-rich future. We must get over it.

By William D. (Bill) Budinger Ray Rothrock Dr. Paul Bauman