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As an engineer, I ran maintenance for a Fortune 500 pulp and paper company. I was based at a plant in Tennessee and covered nine other facilities across the Southeast and Florida. For anyone unfamiliar with heavy industry, these plants are filled with massive, capital-intensive equipment: three-story machines stretching the length of a football field,…
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As Cold War-era geography meets modern warfare, the ironies are striking. For centuries, distance was one of Russia's greatest military assets. Napoleon, Hitler, and NATO all confronted the problem of Russia’s immense landscape. But the overconcentrated and isolated infrastructure established by the Soviets now forces Russia to defend some of the farthest corners of its terri...
The post-Cold War liberal order has come to an end. Every serious analyst across the political spectrum acknowledges this, even if the acknowledgment arrives wrapped in euphemism: “strategic autonomy,” “de-risking,” or “friend-shoring,” i.e., the polite vocabulary of elites who destroyed a world order and cannot quite bring themselves to say so plainly. The neoliberal settlem...
We have a rare bipartisan window of alignment to solve this. We already agree on enough to get started. If Congress fails to act, we will fail to deliver for the American people. The market is begging to build. It is time for Congress to stop standing in our own way and get America building again.
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Texas and California have taken sharply different approaches to surface transportation. Texas has spent decades expanding roadway capacity, building new infrastructure, and moving projects from planning to construction.1 California has pursued a broader set of objectives, including environmental protection, greenhouse gas reduction, land-use planning, transit development, equ...