Three Questions
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Russia’s Pain at the Pump (w/ Sergey Vakulenko)
Three Questions Since April, Ukraine has dramatically escalated its drone campaign against Russia’s oil refineries, knocking out a substantial share of the country’s refining capacity and triggering gasoline shortages from Crimea to central Russia. What was once a nuisance for Moscow has become something closer to a full-blown fuel crisis. Yet the strikes’ effects are
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Turning Up the Dial on America’s Nuclear Restart (w/ Ho K. Nieh)
Three Questions After decades defined by survival and preservation, the U.S. nuclear industry has entered a new era of growth. Bolstered by a 2025 presidential executive order and bipartisan acts of Congress, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is undergoing its most comprehensive transformation in fifty years. The stakes are considerable: surging electricity demand from AI
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Soft Power, Hard Returns: American Investment in Egypt (w/ James Harmon & Cornelius Queen)
Three Questions In 2011, Congress placed $300 million in the hands of private investors with an unusual mandate: grow Egypt’s economy on behalf of the American people. Fifteen years later, the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund has invested in more than 150 companies, helped create over 75,000 jobs, and grown to an estimated value of more than
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What Is the National Interest?
What Is the National Interest? This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 report of the Commission on America’s National Interests, a bipartisan effort to answer a deceptively simple question: what does the United States actually need to do in the world? Far from a dry policy artifact, the report was an attempt to
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Nuclear Power’s Big Leap Forward (w/ Roger Martella)
Nuclear Power’s Big Leap Forward (w/ Roger Martella) One year ago, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders aimed at accelerating the deployment of nuclear energy in the United States. The impact has been dramatic, pulling forward the construction of small modular reactors by roughly five years and reshaping how industry, government, and
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