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Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
October 9, 2024 | Michael R. Strain
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
October 9, 2024 | Frederick M. Hess
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
October 9, 2024 | Matt Weidinger
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
October 8, 2024 | Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter
Has Kamala Harris Given Up on “College for All”?
October 7, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Why Middle Class Wages Aren’t Growing
October 7, 2024 | Kevin Corinth
Six Ideas to Fix Higher Education in 2025
October 3, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy
October 3, 2024 | Michael R. Strain
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
October 3, 2024 | Matt Weidinger and Paul Ryan
The effect of taxes and transfers on low-earning workers’ income.
October 2, 2024 | Scott Winship
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
October 2, 2024 | Howard Husock
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
October 2, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers
September 30, 2024 | Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, and Casey B. Mulligan
Justice at Any Cost?
September 27, 2024 | Naomi Schaefer Riley
Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life
September 25, 2024 | Daniel A. Cox and Sam Pressler
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Are American Workers’ Wages Really Lagging Productivity?
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The Dual Promise of the American Dream
A reform conservatism can revive the promise of the Dream for those kids facing long odds.
Forget the Cost of Living. What’s the Cost of Thriving in America?
Two conservative thinkers clash over whether the middle class is more prosperous than a generation ago.