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July 2, 2025
Have You Heard the Good News?
A quick look at some recent headlines shows that we have problems. The nation sharply and angrily divided along political lines. Rioters in the streets of Los Angeles. A destructive…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…media. As Zach Goldberg of Florida State’s Institute for Governance and Civics shows by mining data from the Monitoring the Future national datasets, girls are more likely to exhibit traits like neuroticism,…
June 17, 2025
Work Requirements For Medicaid Could Increase Income and Reduce Poverty
…are sanctioned and preventing people from joining the rolls in the first place. Those were certainly a key feature of the national 1996 welfare reform; states measured their success in…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Linda Malone-Colon, dean of Hampton University’s School of Liberal Arts and Education, is executive director of the National Center for Black Family…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…
June 5, 2025
The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt
The House of Representatives recently passed by a single vote Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” that reflects President Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda, and GOP senators are now working to put their…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…who championed the provision, explained that he was motivated by his belief that “there’s untapped potential in every state in the nation.” The problem? Opportunity zones were meant to be…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
Against the odds—and conventional wisdom—the nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers (FTBs). New data from the AEI Housing Center show that in 2024,…
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American students and schools is alarmingly clear by nearly every measure. But there is one glaring…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…national public health crisis. In his Advisory, he stated that when he first took office in 2014, he didn’t recognize loneliness as a public health threat—until a cross-country listening tour…