Joshua Busby – The Conversation

Oil-related prices are high, but poised to go even higher. Afry Harvy/iStock / Getty Images Plus

September 28, 2026

Why fuel prices may go higher still

Joshua Busby, The University of Texas at Austin and Greg Pollock, Georgetown University

Seven months into the US conflict with Iran, with no clear end in sight, the global oil market has now largely exhausted the safety measures that exist to keep a lid on petroleum prices.

Workers install battery packs in a BMW X5 in South Carolina. A new battery plant under construction nearby will supply BMW factories. BMW

November 1, 2024

No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with thousands of jobs planned

James Morton Turner, Wellesley College; Joshua Busby, The University of Texas at Austin, and Nathan Jensen, The University of Texas at Austin

The future of these job-generating gigafactories, many of them in Republican states, could be at risk if the next president tries to wipe out the programs that made them possible.

A woman at a camp for those displaced by drought in Baidoa, Somalia, in September 2022. Ed Ram/Getty Images

October 27, 2022

Droughts don’t need to result in famine: Ethiopia and Somalia show what makes the difference

Joshua Busby, The University of Texas at Austin

States with more capacity, more political inclusion and that make good use of foreign aid tend to see better outcomes.

As vice president, Joe Biden – seen here on left, in 2016 – had a working relationship with the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. Is that possible now? Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

December 9, 2020

Foreign policy is Biden’s best bet for bipartisan action, experts say – but GOP is unlikely to join him on climate change

Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service; Jonathan Monten, UCL; Joshua Busby, The University of Texas at Austin; Joshua D. Kertzer, Harvard Kennedy School, and Michael J. Tierney, William & Mary

A survey of 800 foreign policy experts identified four international issues where Republicans and Democrats may actually cooperate to get something done – and one area of severe disagreement.

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