All 23 Government & Public Sector posts we have indexed from venture capital blogs and newsletters, plus the highest-scoring pieces of the past year and the people who write about it most.
The Trump administration's rebranded Department of Energy loan office (EDF) published its first strategic plan through 2030, shifting from innovation-focused lending to capacity, reliability, and energy dominance. Nuclear and geothermal clear the bar; hydrogen, offshore wind, and emissions-reduction projects no longer qualify.
Crypto industry has shifted from existential regulatory uncertainty to constructive rule-making in three years, with stablecoin legislation passed and agencies issuing frameworks—though Congress has yet to pass comprehensive market structure bills like Clarity.
A VC leader grapples with media distrust and the challenge of understanding power, sharing lessons from four books on lobbying, tech ideology, AI governance, and USAID dismantling—each examining how money, ideas, and institutions actually work versus how they appear.
AI agents are rapidly being adopted to represent consumers in digital interactions, but tech giants are blocking them. The author argues governments should enshrine a fundamental right to agent representation, shifting power from centralized platforms back to citizens.
U.S. military stockpiles of advanced munitions are dangerously shallow relative to potential conflicts; the Pentagon's 97%-to-3% budget split favoring expensive legacy systems over lower-cost alternatives leaves insufficient depth. Shifting procurement toward commercially-designed munitions—now available at 5–15× lower unit cost—would stretch defense dollars further and support sustained production capacity.
The USPS faces an existential crisis: $100B in cumulative losses over 20 years, driven by declining mail volume, unsustainable union labor costs, and $106B in unfunded pension liabilities, while political pressures around mail-in voting and ballot screening threaten its core mission.
Data centers are becoming major political battlegrounds as utility regulators and state commissioners face pressure over grid costs, with Georgia's PSC facing electoral pressure after residents voted out incumbents over rate hikes tied to AI infrastructure deals.
A proposal for a negotiated U.S.-China agreement to limit AI datacenter capacity growth, modeled on nuclear non-proliferation verification regimes, to slow the race toward superintelligence while benefiting both economic efficiency and global preparedness.
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