A Statecraft Fall Roundup

The Recoding America Fund, Progress Conference, & a conversation with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios

2 hrs ago • 

Santi Ruiz

1

36:47

Is the Senate Fixing Housing Policy?

"You can’t solve the problem by subsidizing demand and constraining supply"

Oct 16 • 

Santi Ruiz

 and 

Brian Potter

12

4

1:08:47

Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families

"Why is the fridge in a studio the same size as in the three-bedrooms?"

Oct 8 • 

Santi Ruiz

22

3

57:34

How to Bring Down Healthcare Costs

"Our basic problem is an affordability problem"

Oct 2 • 

Santi Ruiz

15

3

1:22:18

September 2025

Trump's H-1B Changes Will Backfire

A quick look at some poor statecraft

Sep 26 • 

Santi Ruiz

48

18

What Is America’s Infrastructure Cost Problem?

“I'm part of the problem”

Sep 17 • 

Santi Ruiz

25

2

33:34

How to Write the AI Action Plan

Dean Ball: "The Deep State is totally real."

Sep 10 • 

Santi Ruiz

 and 

Dean W. Ball

23

6

1:25:05

August 2025

Leninist Technocracy with Grand Opera Characteristics

"What puny civilization are we living in?”

Aug 28 • 

Santi Ruiz

33

3

1:20:47

Four Ways to Fix Government HR

“If you make the civil service more stultified, you have to contract stuff out”

Aug 21 • 

Santi Ruiz

17

6

1:03:01

Order of Operations in a Regime Change

A review of Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, by Vladislav Zubok

Aug 15 • 

Santi Ruiz

33

7

How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst

“The first to get thrown under the bus is the intelligence community”

Aug 7 • 

Santi Ruiz

70

7

1:01:25

July 2025

How to Fix Foreign Aid

USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE

Jul 31 • 

Santi Ruiz

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5

1:14:01