New Based Rates post just dropped
No, it doesn't mention int'l relations, but it's easy to follow the links in the chain that connects front-page news to the post's big takeaway.
I'll put it this way: think globally if you like, but in any case recognize our clear need for greater state capacity.
A greener city has to be a fairer city.
We’re bringing fast, affordable EV charging to working drivers and underserved communities—starting with a new hub in Flushing, Queens.
Eight chargers. 80% charge in under 15 minutes. The first of 10 sites coming this year.
1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order
Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“
i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries
This is what ecocide looks like.
We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
A very different future withered in Boulder a decade ago because this company would fight to overturn a democratic decision demanded by the people of Boulder until they won. Now everyone pays.
These laws are most prominent in red states, but blue states aren't immune, especially when the laws are paired with "energy choice" language. See the recently passed ban-on-gas bans in Maine for ex., a former failed bill now successful bc of energy price fears: mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/11/h...
In it, I construct a taxonomy of state laws that restrict or prohibit local climate action, and argue that they function as tools of fossil fuel entrenchment, posing serious barriers to a just transition and reshaping federalism.