Niskanen Center
Established in 2014, the Niskanen Center is a nonpartisan think tank that works to change public policy through direct engagement in the policymaking process: developing and promoting proposals to legislative and executive branch policymakers, building coalitions to facilitate joint action, and marshaling the most convincing arguments in support of our agenda. The Center’s main audience is the Washington insiders – policy-oriented legislators, presidential appointees, career civil servants in planning, evaluation and budget offices, congressional committee staff, engaged academics, and interest group analysts – who together decide the pace and direction of policy change. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NiskanenCenter Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/niskanencenter/www.niskanencenter.org
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Oct 28, 2026
Matt GrossmannHOST
How well can we predict elections? This week on the Science of Politics.
Matt GrossmannHOST
For the Niskanen Center, I'm Matt Grossmann.
Matt GrossmannHOST
Many different forecasters and prognosticators are trying to predict the results of the 2026 election, using polls and models and sometimes on-the-ground knowledge.
Matt GrossmannHOST
Can we trust their predictions? How well have they done historically and are they getting better or worse? It turns out that election handicapping has a long history we can learn from.
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Michael FranzGUEST
And, you know, we'll see where that goes, but that's sort of the next sort of project in that regard.
Matt GrossmannHOST
There's a lot more to learn.
Matt GrossmannHOST
The Science of Politics is available biweekly from the Niskanen Center, and I'm your host, Matt Grossmann.
Matt GrossmannHOST
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Scott AlexanderHOST
Meanwhile, in New York, Governor Hochul extended authority for cities to utilize land value capture to fund new transit stops, a tool that can be used for the new Inter-Burrow Expressway, or IBX, subway expansion.
Scott AlexanderHOST
We're working with the Niskanen Center, Center for Public Enterprise, and Institute for Progress to turn this idea into a real policy proposal.
Scott AlexanderHOST
Nor is interest in land value tax limited to the United States.
Scott AlexanderHOST
The UK just elected a new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who has long openly advocated for a land value tax, and South Korea did the same last year with the election of the new President Lee Jae-myung.
Marshall KosloffHOST
So my name is Marshall Kosloff.
Marshall KosloffHOST
I'm the director of special projects at the Niskanen Center, and I am also the host of the Realignment podcast, a podcast that focuses on populism and its effects on American politics since the 2016 election.
Marshall KosloffHOST
I'm joined by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who is the president of the American Action Forum, We have Robert Rubin, who is the former Treasury Secretary, and Christos Makridis, who is a senior researcher at Gallup.
Marshall KosloffHOST
Very excited you all can join this session.
Marc LevittGUEST
I think there are some great explainers out there from a variety of organizations that I work with.
Marc LevittGUEST
The Bipartisan Policy Center, the Institute for Progress, the Niskanen Center has a good explainer on transmission.
Marc LevittGUEST
There's a whole cluster of organizations that, I mean, I think are sort of in this umbrella group that's working on this build together, each of which is playing an important role in messaging.
Marc LevittGUEST
Oh, Environmental Policy Information Innovation Center.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
And to be clear about the tools they have to do that with, here's Eliza Reed.
speaker_3CORRESPONDENT
She researches electricity and transmission policy at the Niskanen Center.
Eliza ReedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Broadly what's relevant for AI is their management of wholesale electricity markets and aspects of transmission rates and paying for transmission in the interstate transmission of electricity.
Eliza ReedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's transmission rates, open access to transmission lines, and then planning and reliability standards.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, the project is called a Migration Map Index, and the most concerning part about this is that it actually is part of a newly federally funded grant actually coming from the Trump administration.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, this project was done by the Niskanen Center.
Natalie WintersHOST
It's a Soros-funded, you know the whole group that funds this group, open borders, big business, that kind of entity.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, but the Trump admin- administration has actually funded a project called the Welcoming Initiative for Newcomers.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, the project is called a Migration Map Index, and the most concerning part about this is that it actually is part of a newly federally funded grant actually coming from the Trump administration.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, this project was done by the Niskanen Center.
Natalie WintersHOST
It's a Soros-funded, you know, the whole group that funds this group, Open Borders, big business, that kind of entity.
Natalie WintersHOST
Um, but the Trump admin- administration has actually funded a project called the Welcoming Initiative for Newcomers.
Danielle WalkerHOST
if Natalie shared the name of the think tank.
Danielle WalkerHOST
It is called the Nis- Niskanen Center, N-I-S-K-A-N-E-N Center.
Danielle WalkerHOST
And you can see-
Chris AlexanderHOST
Yeah
Chuck FrankHOST
Natalie Winters, the White House correspondent for Steve Bannon's War Room and the best investigative reporter in the last five years in the United States, has this one on her substack.
Chuck FrankHOST
built on the Niskanen Center's own published reports.
Chuck FrankHOST
So there's no wiggling out of this.
Chuck FrankHOST
Niskanen is a Washington think tank.
Chuck FrankHOST
Last November, it published something called the Migration Match Index.
Chuck FrankHOST
And you know what? You don't want to be matched.
Chuck FrankHOST
It's a county-by-county map of America, rating places by job openings, empty rentals, cost of living, and how old the local population is.
Chuck FrankHOST
Niskanen says 484%.
Sean CaseyHOST
A Washington think tank, Natalie Winters reporting, has drawn up a county-by-county migration shortlist and wants private entities to sponsor arrivals directly.
Sean CaseyHOST
It's the Niskanen Center.
Sean CaseyHOST
Uh, they get, uh, money from George Soros, and, uh, the instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.
Sean CaseyHOST
Uh, two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for illegal aliens.
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