2026-04-03
Industrial Policy for Housing Policy is a new blueprint for tackling the housing crisis from Arpit Gupta and Steve Teles. One bit I particularly liked was the five-part diagnosis of why factory-built housing has failed t…
Why America is so much better at immigration than Europe is a fascinating new piece by Kelsey Piper and Alexander Kustov (who also writes the great Popular by Design substack on immigration). Piper and Kustov point to a …
We at AGF don’t work as directly on AI issues as many of our peers at Coefficient Giving, but you can’t really think about the medium to long-run state of the US and world economies without thinking seriously about AI. I…
This week, there were two very different pieces on reforming how we fund science. In City Journal, Michael Gibson (former VP of Grants at the Thiel Foundation) argues that Jim O’Neill’s nomination as NSF director is a ch…
However you want to reform science funding, structural shake-ups require that there are functioning agencies to reform; to keep tabs on how things are going on that front, Grant Witness is now tracking NIH and NSF fundin…
It’s a big week for electricity price data - the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory updated its Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers with 2025 data and new analysis, and a Heatmap/MIT/CleanEcon collaboration la…
Research in action: Why permitting reform matters . Evan Soltas translated his recent LA permitted reform paper, that we featured a few weeks ago, into a localized estimate of the value of permitting reform in NYC. Each …
We might finally get a vaccine against Lyme disease ! Maybe. Hopefully? Unfortunately, the confidence intervals in the phase three trial were really wide: after four doses, its efficacy was estimated at 73.2%, with a 95%…