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February 18, 2025

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Key Points Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth rates…

September 17, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity

Material hardship among American children has never been lower. This seeming victory in the War…

October 12, 2023

The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents

Republicans looking to expand their party’s coalition have a problem. The public identifies them above all with…

June 30, 2023

It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions

The Supreme Court’s decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news…

April 20, 2023

Religion’s Refusal to Die

Event Summary On April 20–21, AEI and the Lefrak Forum cohosted a wide-ranging conference addressing…

June 15, 2022

Second Time’s the Charm?

Early last year, Senator Mitt Romney proposed a new approach to family policy that exposed some…

November 16, 2021

The Changing Face of Social Breakdown

Last month, two of my colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute (Brad Wilcox and Lyman…

May 4, 2020

How To Educate an American

In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system…