Ted Fertik is Vice President for Manufacturing and Industrial Policy at the BlueGreen Alliance. He was previously the Senior Strategist for Policy and Research at the Working Families Party, and received his PhD in history from Yale University.

September 24, 2025

Analysis

The Anti-Climate Common Sense

How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling

In all its forms, the Trump assault on climate policy aims to convince Americans that climate action will make them worse off, and, in doing so, to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalitions that made US climate action possible. The…

September 2, 2023

Interviews

Defining Bidenomics

Industrial policy, labor, and the New Cold War

, Daniela Gabor, Tim Sahay, Daniel Denvir

A new American industrial policy—“Bidenomics”—has arrived, consisting of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act. The proclaimed goals of Bidenomics are to propel a green energy transition to confront climate…