A Clinton-era hydrogen company, Plug Power, fights to embed its business model in the tax code.
industrial policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
Global Capitalists or National Champions?
As long as production is domestic, does it matter whether a company creating jobs for U.S. workers is American, German, or Japanese?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Low-Key Green
Pueblo is a world-class model for the clean-energy economy envisioned in the Inflation Reduction Act. But its residents may not feel it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Investing in Disinvested America
The Biden administration’s manufacturing subsidies are disproportionately flowing to red states and districts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
U.S. and EU Struggle to Form Green Steel Club
The troubled transatlantic trade deal may expose the limits of Washington’s green ‘friendshoring’ agenda.
Posted inBooks
It’s the Global Economy, Stupid
A new book on the Clinton presidency reveals how it abandoned a progressive vision for a finance-led agenda for economics and geopolitics.
Posted inBooks
A Hemmed-In Presidency
In ‘The Last Politician,’ Franklin Foer unfolds Joe Biden’s record of achievement and command. But voters haven’t gotten to see it.
Posted inTAP
U.S. Steel and the Fake Populism of J.D. Vance
Today on TAP: Let’s not confuse the corporate interest with worker interests.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Indirect Play for a Just Transition to EVs
Department of Energy programs condition funding for retooling factories on good-paying union jobs in manufacturing communities.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Construction Bids for EV Projects in Georgia Go to Gov. Kemp’s Donors
Under an obscure program, state and local authorities got to pick construction firms for Rivian and Hyundai plants. They chose non-union firms that have contributed heavily to Republicans.
