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July 2, 2025
Have You Heard the Good News?
…need. Second, the rose-colored remembrance of the joy and fulfillment from doing the equivalent of assembling 1950s automobiles all day is mostly a collective delusion. Material prosperity is good. In…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…matter less to dads than to moms, a new report on the impact fathers have on their kids suggests we shouldn’t underestimate how much dads matter. “Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids:…
June 5, 2025
The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt
…GOP bill. In the end, Republicans are making a political calculation that, as former Vice President Dick Cheney said, “deficits don’t matter.” This sentiment is bipartisan, history indicates, and Republicans…
May 23, 2025
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
…matters more for marriage than “her” work. One Harvard study, for instance, showed that a couple’s risk of divorce shot up 33 percent if the husband was unemployed, but rose not…
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
…matter. So does the intergenerational initiative I encountered at Kansas City Public Library. In 2023, they launched a gathering designed to foster connection across generations. College students helped develop the…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…stark: in today’s labor market, few occupations remain safe from AI-driven disruption. As Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman bluntly puts it, “It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product…
April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
…matter of if, but when. The current student loan mess The federal government suspended student loan payments in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; this meant that payments…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
…there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to…
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…through school. This cannot continue to be the case. We must go back to teaching foundational skills in math and place a greater emphasis on mathematical fluency. Society talks about…