Young voters have been critical to Democratic victories in recent election cycles, so it is not surprising that their opinions earn an outsized amount of attention. However, E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Max Keeney write that there are key challenges to measuring the preferences of and potential turnout rates for young people.
America’s impressive COVID bounce back. In the initial years of pandemic recovery, the United States has seen substantially more economic growth and investment than its G10 peers. Robin Brooks and Ben Harris outline what drove this performance.
Critical minerals for the energy transition. Transitioning the energy system away from fossil fuels will drastically increase the world’s need for certain minerals. On a new episode of Climate Sense, Samantha Gross, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Ernest Moniz, and Douglas Wicks discuss what some of these critical minerals are, the current state of supply, and how to ensure adequate supply in the future.
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