American Affairs Journal

The more strategic move is simpler, dumber even: tariff everything. Create a durable preference for production in the United States, across the whole industrial base, and let entrepreneurs, engineers, and manufacturers discover where the next breakthroughs will come. The scalpel has its place, but the blunt force object is the tool for this job. For those who really want to “...

As the United States embarks on the next great buildout of strategic infrastructure in the form of AI data centers, it must ensure that the material supply chain for the interstates that underpin it all remains secure and modern.

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The story of the highway system is, in many ways, the story of public infrastructure more broadly. What appears as a transportation challenge is in fact a reflection of a deeper structural issue: governments built vast systems in an era of expansion but have yet to fully adapt to the demands of long-term stewardship.

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Too many seem to think that in a handful of years, Americans will wake up to a technofuturist version of the 1950s, when Uncle Sam’s rolled sleeves, brawny forearms, and dexterous hands peerlessly delivered the world’s goods. A necessary and uplifting vision to be sure, but let Potter pour cold water on it. After all, the United States had decades of process knowledge to buil...

We are not naïve about the political difficulties surrounding immigration, but we nonetheless wish to underscore the plight and wellbeing of disadvantaged native workers, a group that both parties claim to have some affinity for, either now or in the recent past; recognizing labor market security as an essential factor in advancing their economic future should be the way forw...