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Trump’s War on Solar & Wind: A Timeline of Recent Federal Actions
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Memo · 1,422 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Explaining America’s Child Care Problem
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Report · 2,553 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Democrats Are Starting to Get It On Energy Costs
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Memo · 892 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Debunking Myths About the Democratic Party
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 321 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
AI and Emerging Technologies in Health Care
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 3,305 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Making Republicans’ Big Beautiful Blunder Stick with Swing Voters
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 187 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
The Looming $661 Billion Cut to Hospitals
Third Way · 2025-10-08 · Memo · 751 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
What If the US Centralized All Federal Infrastructure Financing?
Third Way · 2025-10-08 · Blog · 1,477 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Democratic Primary Voters Still Touch Grass
Third Way · 2025-09-30 · Memo · 2,320 words
The 2028 primary is still a long way away, but countless hopefuls are already floating trial balloons, and gallons of ink has already been spilled profiling potential 2028 candidates, including their ...
Sanctuary Isn’t What You Think
Third Way · 2025-09-29 · Memo · 2,158 words
The White House has painted so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions as lawless safe havens that “harbor criminals” and “block” federal enforcement. The reality is far different. In fact, no state or city ...
Atomlink: Unlocking Civil Nuclear Expansion at the Western Frontier
Third Way · 2025-09-26 · Report · 266 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Professional Program Exceptions Would Swallow the Rule on Loan Limits
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Blog · 1,072 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
More is More: An All-of-the-Above Strategy for America’s Energy Cost Crisis
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Memo · 2,041 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
The Republican Health Care Price Hike
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Memo · 646 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
How AI Could Play a Role in Making Government Work
Third Way · 2025-09-22 · Report · 1,710 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
From Chicago to Philly—and Beyond: Scaling Smarter Small Business Certification
Third Way · 2025-09-18 · Report · 1,105 words
This report examines a groundbreaking partnership between transit agencies in Chicago and Philadelphia that shows exactly how to unlock small business contracting opportunities, creating a model that ...
Navigating Trump’s DC Invasion
Third Way · 2025-09-16 · Memo · 962 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Four Ways the Institute of Education Sciences Can Prioritize Student Outcomes Data
Third Way · 2025-09-12 · Memo · 1,383 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Accountability for Value: Smarter Risk and Better Results in Higher Education
Third Way · 2025-09-11 · Memo · 2,077 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Democrats: Use Funding Fight to Stop the Republican Assault on Health Care
Third Way · 2025-09-10 · Memo · 968 words
This is the rare shutdown fight in which the policy, politics, and leverage all align. Democrats should make health care costs their non-negotiable demand. They should refuse to participate in a bipar...
America First, Small Business Last: The Cost of Trump’s Chaotic Policies
Third Way · 2025-09-09 · Blog · 492 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Middle Class Millionaires: A Revolution in Wealth Attainment for Working America
Third Way · 2025-09-09 · Memo · 1,064 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Ahead of the Pack: Explaining Top Earning Non-College Workers
Third Way · 2025-09-05 · Report · 1,216 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
The Five Tickets to the Middle Class
Third Way · 2025-08-21 · Memo · 1,404 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Homebuilder in Chief: A Plan to Build 12 Million New Homes
Third Way · 2025-08-21 · Memo · 1,150 words
Democrats need to be the party that makes the middle class affordable and accessible. As part of that, there needs to be a commitment to building more new homes than we have at any other time in the l...
Q&A: Higher Ed Accreditation
Third Way · 2025-06-12 · Memo · 2,655 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Q&A: Graduate Education Finance
Third Way · 2025-05-08 · Blog · 2,897 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Taking on Trump: Separating the Signal from the Noise
Third Way · 2025-03-14 · Memo · 930 words
We are creating the “Signal Project” to identify the Trump Administration’s actions that are most relevant to key voters and how best to frame those issues. This work—including in-depth public opinion...
7 Implications from the DeepSeek AI Release
Third Way · 2025-02-10 · Blog · 488 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Maybe Big Ain’t So Bad
Third Way · 2025-02-10 · Blog · 670 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Renewing the Democratic Party
Third Way · 2025-02-02 · Report · 6,886 words
The Democratic Party stands in urgent need of renewal. This renewal involves more than communications, organization, and mobilization. It will require the party to ask itself hard questions about the ...
Open-Source AI is a National Security Imperative
Third Way · 2025-01-30 · Report · 2,762 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Clash of the Tech Titans
Third Way · 2024-10-23 · Report · 3,913 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Who Has JD Vance’s Ear on AI and Should We Be Concerned?
Third Way · 2024-10-01 · Memo · 2,085 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
What are AI Agents?
Third Way · 2024-09-26 · Memo · 2,266 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Introducing Third Way’s US-China Digital World Order Initiative
Third Way · 2022-06-08 · Memo · 1,614 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
2020 Country Brief: North Korea
Third Way · 2020-09-17 · Primer · 3,050 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...