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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 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…

May 13, 2025

Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?

…We should note that national surveys, such as the Current Population Survey, tend to underreport the share of adults on such programs. To Finley’s point, the share of young men receiving one…

May 10, 2025

How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis

…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.”  As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…