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October 08, 2025 | The Sling

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed Anti-MonopolyClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic Policy

The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective

Growth is responsible for the widely shared prosperity ushered in across much of the world in the twentieth century, leading to declines in infant mortality, longer life expectancy, and some of the best standards of living in human history. But growth has also driven mass deforestation, soaring income inequality, and the erosion of democracy as power became increasingly concentrated. When a handful of companies control local television stations, it’s easier for a president with authoritarian tendencies to punish his perceived enemies. Acknowledging that duality and seeking balance is different than monomaniacally pursuing economic growth or degrowth.

June 24, 2025

Xaver Clarke

Blog Post Climate and EnvironmentCriminal JusticeEconomic PolicyEducationExecutive BranchHealthImmigrationTrump 2.0

Trump’s War on Public Data

Trump’s antagonistic relationship with facts is well documented. His most egregious attacks on reality aren’t just rhetorical. They threaten physical safety and American democracy. They target the ways we define what we know about the country and ourselves. Trump’s assault on public data is not a side project, it’s a core feature of his authoritarian approach to governance. By hollowing out federal statistics, limiting information gathering, and redacting inconvenient reports, the Trump administration is warping reality to suit its political narrative. The goal isn’t just to obscure the effects of the president’s policies, it’s to prevent the public from seeing them at all.

June 11, 2025 | Citations Needed

Kenny Stancil Henry Burke

Interview AbundanceAnti-MonopolyArtificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentEconomic MediaEconomic PolicyGovernment CapacityMatt Yglesias

PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke Discuss "Abundance" as Counter to Left Populism on Citations Needed

Revolving Door Project senior researchers Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke joined Citations Needed to talk about the so-called Abundance agenda, including how it’s being promoted as an alternative to a downwardly redistributive economic populism.

April 28, 2025 | The Sling

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed Economic MediaEconomic PolicyExecutive BranchTrade Policy

Trump Shatters the Assumptions of Neoclassical Economics

To the extent that we ever lived in a neoclassical world, the Trump administration is ensuring that we don’t any longer. We are long overdue for more nuanced economic discourse that doesn’t shy away from its own limitations, and that recognizes when it can and should (perhaps must) be complemented with other types of insights. As the illusion of perfect competition becomes ever more ethereal, the need for more sophisticated economic thinking and debate becomes ever more urgent.