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All the President’s Men

The people occupying environment and energy positions will be anti-regulatory and pro-fossil fuel.

There will be a lot of dramatic fireworks on Day One of Trump’s second term, literally and figuratively. Yet his ability to achieve his agenda will depend on the people he’s chosen to run the government.  His energy and environment picks will follow the party line of expanding fossil fuels.  Yet they may not be as extremist as their predecessors in the first Trump Administration or as some of Trump’s advisors.

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Expertise versus Politics Under Biden

Experts will no longer be pariahs under Biden. But will their voices be heard?

One of the abiding issues in governance is the balance between democratic leadership and experts.  We don’t want government solely by technocrats.  Nor do we want government steered solely by ideology and politics, as under Trump.  Biden will be a vast improvement, but there’s still some question about whether he’ll get the balance right. I …

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