June 8, 2026
What Liberals Get Wrong About the Middle Class
It’s a common refrain: The middle class is hollowing out; Americans overall are increasingly falling…
June 6, 2026
Child Abuse and Neglect Are Intergenerational Problems. Policies to Protect Children Should Reflect That
Hurt people hurt people. Just because that phrase has become a mantra of therapeutic babble…
May 27, 2026
Deadly Child-Abuse “Torture” Exposes NY’s Willful Blindness
Little Jor’Dynn Duncan should never have gone to live with Emily Kelly, the Long Island woman…
May 27, 2026
Congress Shouldn’t Create Another Newborn Benefit
A bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the Supporting Newborn Parents Act of 2026, which would…
May 15, 2026
When Washington Picks Up the States’ Tab, Waste and Fraud Follow
Congress has caught on that how welfare and related programs are funded, and who does the spending,…
May 15, 2026
Dem Policymakers Plan to Exploit AI Job Fears to Push the ‘Perfect Recipe for Fraud’
Behind the scenes in Washington, many policymakers are planning for an economic disruption: potential job…
May 11, 2026
Why We May Never Know of Child-Welfare Workers’ Fatal Mistakes
Looks like a lot of CYA going on at ACS. That’s the conclusion of a…
April 30, 2026
One of the Worst Laws in America Deserves a Hearing Before the Supreme Court
Kelly and Nate Reyelts have fostered about 50 children. Kelly is a teacher and Nate…
April 30, 2026
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods
In a recent report with Stephen Rose, I argued that the narrative of a “shrinking middle…
April 17, 2026
New Mexico’s Attorney General Is Suing His State’s Broken Child-Welfare Agency
It’s not uncommon for state child-welfare agencies to be taken to court. In fact, most…
April 11, 2026
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that…
April 7, 2026
Zohran Mamdani’s ACS Choice Puts ‘Racial Equity’ Above Keeping NYC Kids Safe and Alive
‘“It’s really hard to think about anything other than dismantling [the child welfare system] entirely…