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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…30%. If current trends continue, half of Americans will not have a religion by 2070. As scholar Michelle Shain notes, religion is “a powerful predictor of mental health for millennial…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…boys from academic failure, as well as trouble in and outside of school. To remedy this, we convened an ideologically diverse group of scholars to research the state of fatherhood…
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…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…rates of depression, and higher rates of personal meaning and satisfaction (despite also reporting higher stress levels), according to family scholars Wendy Wang and Yifeng Wan, who presented their recent…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…and egregious assault on our constitutional system of government. In the Constitution, it is Congress’s role to raise revenue, not the president’s. I am an economist, not a constitutional scholar….
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…college student received an annual financial aid package worth $1,700 (in today’s dollars) from sources outside their institution, including the federal government, states, and private scholarships. By 2019-20, however, the…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…Naomi Cahn and June Carbone argue that blue states have the liberal values and policies they believe make for strong and stable families. Scholars like them point to universal pre-K,…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…scholar, he did not connect the dots between the crisis in American masculinity and the distance too many boys and men have from married family life. In fact, he argued that we…
January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…our children affected by this tidal wave of pornography? As scholars from the Institute for Family Studies, the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia, we…
October 17, 2024
Harris’ Tax Plans Would Reduce Long-Term Prosperity. Trump’s Proposals Might Be Even Worse.
AEI Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael R. Strain contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Economic Policy Experts: Doom, Thy Name Is Populism, as a group of experts outlined…