Todd Tucker
@toddntucker.com
Director, Industrial Policy & Trade, @RooseveltInstitute.org, @RooseveltForward.org. Political scientist of economic transitions, administrative states, Bidenomics, Trumpnomics. PhD.
Smart piece from @jasondovemark.bsky.social about the trade-offs for the climate movement in hitching a ride on the affordability and/or data center agendas. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
What Does the Climate Movement Do Now?
Advocates are searching for a political wave to catch.
theatlantic.com
TODAY! NYC Climate Week! 130 pm. Midtown. Come on down! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...
The Future of Clean Industrial Policy
Climate policy around the world has integrated key elements of industrial policy, marking a significant change from relying solely on market-based mechanisms to driving down emissions to now focusing ...
rsvp2.americanprogress.org
New from our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social: As AI companies push for voluntary safety rules, the latest warnings about AI risks make one thing clear: we can’t just hand the industry the keys to its own oversight. ⬇️
Fear Itself: AI Anxiety Is No Excuse for Self-Regulation - Roosevelt Institute
AI companies are sounding the alarm about the technology they’re building—and asking for more room to regulate themselves. Elizabeth Wilkins argues that real AI safety requires something different: pu...
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Jake Sullivan calls for a Strategic Investment Fund: "Loans and guarantees would stretch each public dollar and crowd in private capital, and convertible and equity-like instruments could give taxpayers a share of upside when investments succeed." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Reindustrialize America
The case for a strategic investment fund.
foreignaffairs.com
Bill Graves, the Republican governor of Kansas from 1995 to 2003, writes an oped today endorsing the Democratic nominee for Senate in the state (Adam Hamilton, who's challenging Senator Marshall). www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
Bill Graves: Elect Adam Hamilton to put Kansans first in the US Senate | Opinion
The former governor says Roger Marshall has turned his back on the people he’s supposed to represent. | Opinion
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“Democrats would be better advised to follow the example of Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans,” this WSJ oped says about court reform. They thought the courts were so partisan they abolished entire circuit courts and prevented the Supreme Court from meeting for a year! www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...
Opinion | Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don’t Be So Sure
The precedents don’t support what the Democrats want to do, which would be an assault on the separation of powers.
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Jared Abbott: "if the goal is passing a New Deal–scale economic agenda to ensure economic security for all ... as Jentleson says his is, electing more Landrieus and Manchins amounts to a Pyrrhic victory, because they will undermine it at every step." jacobin.com/2026/09/jent...
How the Left Can Win a Supermajority
The US left has had some success winning primaries in Democrat-held constituencies. But this can’t be a strategy for national success and the implementation of New Deal–style programs. For that, we’ll...
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New episode from @volts.wtf: @toddntucker.com discusses our 2029 climate policy agenda and how a future administration can build on the new tools of economic statecraft this administration has put into practice—and actually employ them toward positive, environmental ends. Listen 🎧:
Could we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?
A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute.
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A really terrific report from @rooseveltinstitute.org on "How to Make Green Statecraft Durable." Lots of great ideas here. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Excited to be heading to NYC for Climate Week this month, and to be speaking on this panel on Monday 21st. Getting clean industrial policy right is good for the country, good for the economy, good for citizens and good for the climate. Looking forward to discussing!
Todd Tucker@toddntucker.com · 3w agoIn NYC September 21 for Climate Week? Come by @rooseveltinstitute.org offices for a panel discussion on The Future of Clean Industrial Policy with @americanprogress.bsky.social @mcortonscott.bsky.social @lcefuk.bsky.social @cleanenergycanada.org + more! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...
And for more on what Trump’s “golden shares” could mean for future progressive economic policy, catch up with our Director for Industrial Policy, @toddntucker.com ⬇️
Todd Tucker@toddntucker.com · 4w agoWhy Trump’s ‘golden shares’ are enticing progressives. @politico.co story discusses new @rooseveltinstitute.org report and rethinking of public equity stakes, w/ @bharatramamurti.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and me. politi.co/4xDIGEI
Government equity stakes can be a powerful tool for industrial policy, but only when they’re structured to advance the public interest. A new @politico.com piece cites our research on how public ownership done right can help advance climate, energy, and labor goals. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
In NYC September 21 for Climate Week? Come by @rooseveltinstitute.org offices for a panel discussion on The Future of Clean Industrial Policy with @americanprogress.bsky.social @mcortonscott.bsky.social @lcefuk.bsky.social @cleanenergycanada.org + more! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/futureofclea...
The Future of Clean Industrial Policy
Climate policy around the world has integrated key elements of industrial policy, marking a significant change from relying solely on market-based mechanisms to driving down emissions to now focusing ...
rsvp2.americanprogress.org
It’s fun and cool that “does the law apply equally to Republicans and Democrats” is just a normal part of our national conversation now. Extra fun and cool that the answer is obviously “no.”
Todd Tucker@toddntucker.com · 4w agoThe growing use of golden shares - and whether they can be used for progressive ends without SCOTUS asymmetrically blocking it - was a big theme in my conversation last week with @volts.wtf bsky.app/profile/todd...
Why Trump’s ‘golden shares’ are enticing progressives. @politico.co story discusses new @rooseveltinstitute.org report and rethinking of public equity stakes, w/ @bharatramamurti.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and me. politi.co/4xDIGEI
Why Trump’s ‘golden shares’ are enticing progressives
Direct government intervention in specific companies may be on the way to becoming a bipartisan feature.
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Great @thedigradio.bsky.social w/ @astra.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social and @madisoncondon.bsky.social At 1:40, Madison shares her National Climate Service idea. For more, see her "Building Up in 2029" chapter from @rooseveltinstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/todd...
Astra Taylor@astra.bsky.social · 4w agoExcited to share this long-brewing episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social. Got to nerd out about climate catastrophe and insurance — and the possibility of better public models — with @moira.bsky.social, @madisoncondon.bsky.social, and @dwallacewells.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/insu...
17. Last but definitely not least, @tedfertik.bsky.social calls for greater empowerment of labor in the next phase of the clean energy transition. It's not just normatively desirable, but good for making policy stickier. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Rebalance Capital and Labor
A case for putting organized labor at the center of U.S. climate and industrial policy to build durable political support for the clean energy transition.
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If you're in Seattle, come and see me chat with Leah about her new book on Sep. 14 at Town Hall!
Leah C. Stokes with David Roberts | Town Hall Seattle
They were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they crafted the boldest...
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Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's publication day for The Carbon Wave! Thank you to everyone who has already bought a copy. Until Friday you can buy signed copies at Brookline Booksmith: brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9780262... Book tour: thecarbonwave.com/tour Book club: electricnotes.news/p/climate-bo...
Little-known governing hack: Find out what things people like, then give them that
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4w agoMamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
How Golden Share in US Steel might give the Steelworkers' union a leg up in contract negotiations, and set standards at other firms as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
United Steelworker Talks Test Reach of Trump ‘Golden Share’ Deal
A novel national security agreement between US Steel and the Trump administration complicates labor relations for the company and competitor Cleveland-Cliffs as they race to negotiate new contracts wi...
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New from @shahrzadshams.bsky.social: Prediction markets are becoming increasingly entrenched in major American institutions. Across sports, media and finance, these once-niche platforms are being woven into institutional infrastructure, data and marketing. That creates a problem for regulation. 🧵
Prediction Markets Across Sports, Media, and Finance: Institutional Entrenchment and the Risk of Path Dependence - Roosevelt Institute
In just a few years, prediction markets have gone from obscure tools concentrated in the niche corners of elite policy, academia, intelligence, and analytics communities to rapidly expanding fixtures ...
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"It makes a tremendous bit of sense for Democrats to play it straight, unlike Roosevelt. We live in a populist moment in which people care more about authenticity than institutional abstractions. Everyone will know what this is really about."
16. CEA alum @jonasnahm.com and @danieldrisc.com turn to the question of America's growth model - and how different clean production strategies can lean into it, or may need to tilt against it. They call for an honest reckoning with the trade-offs of either. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Decarbonize America’s Growth Model
How the U.S. growth model shapes climate and industrial policy, and why balancing domestic manufacturing with consumer demand is key to decarbonization.
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That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoRep. James Clyburn says he supports expanding the Supreme Court: "13 is a pretty good number. A baker's dozen would be a good number to have on the Court."
"The Hayekian conclusion always remained contingent — and only true so long as governments lacked the necessary informational and computational capacity for central planning to outdo free markets. The question is whether AI changes that," writes @martinsandbu.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/cd3f...
Could AI revive the socialist dream?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to both reignite and overturn the century-old debate over central economic planning
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Today on Volts: even as he is dismantling climate policy, Trump is demonstrating how to use the tools of aggressive state capitalism. A new volume of essays from the @rooseveltinstitute.org argues that those tools could be harnessed for green policy. I talk with RI's @toddntucker.com about it.
Could we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?
A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute.
volts.wtf
I'm on @volts.wtf podcast today on the lessons from our new @rooseveltinstitute.org book: "Building Up in 2029: Making Green Statecraft Durable." We talked about how equity stakes, SCOTUS reform, & subfederalization are climate policy. www.volts.wtf/p/could-we-u...
Could we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?
A conversation with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute.
volts.wtf
Canada should rename Lake Superior as Lake Epstein.
David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · last mo.What a maroon. A true national embarrassment, day in and day out. But this is more than just more Trumpian idiocy. It damages a vital and valued relationship. It makes the US a laughingstock internationally. What a flaccid act by an impotent buffoon. wapo.st/4gUNpvA
15. @joeldodge07.bsky.social uncovers the hidden history of publicly-owned factories in the US, and shows how they could be used to bypass permitting and other challenges that have bedeviled the clean energy buildout. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Construct Public Factories
Why public ownership should play a larger role in U.S. green industrial policy, reducing reliance on private markets to build the clean energy economy.
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