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September 8, 2025
…Detroit that would be named for Frederick Douglass. To clear the way for this and many similar projects named for important black historical figures such as Ida B. Wells, James…
July 18, 2025
An unfortunately popular myth peddled by populists on both the left and right is that America has been in steady decline since the 1970s. To hear them tell it, the…
July 2, 2025
…the far right often using placeholder words like globalist, the far left preferring words like Zionist, though increasingly just going to full-on Jew-blaming (stay classy, James). Both ends of the horseshoe advocate intrusive, autocratic socialistic…
June 25, 2025
Key Points Despite the importance of mid-level workers to sectors like finance, business services, government, and health care, many of these workers are vulnerable to de-skilling, job loss, and forced…
June 5, 2025
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
April 8, 2025
Health insurance subsidies, especially as provided by Medicaid, are under scrutiny as Republicans scout for savings to make way for their tax agenda. However, instead of selective cuts, Congress should…
March 24, 2025
…p.m. Q&A 12:30 p.m. Adjournment Related Content James C. Capretta on Reducing Health Care Spending James C. Capretta and Robert Doar | One on One with Robert Doar | January 28, 2025…
March 11, 2025
The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…
February 25, 2025
…It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who coined the term just over a century…
February 21, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…