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January 12, 2024
…the Child Tax Credit and reduced revenue from the business-tax provisions must be fully offset by reduced spending elsewhere. The national debt recently surpassed $34 trillion. Now is not the…
January 12, 2024
…national media — from NPR to The New York Times — it led other states across the nation, from Arkansas to Texas, to also take legislative steps to reign in Big Tech and protect…
January 11, 2024
With the national debt soaring past $34 trillion, liberal politicians hoping to expand the federal leviathan face a conundrum. How can they convince Americans wary of the effects of runaway…
January 10, 2024
…confirmed that full refundability would have yielded only bigger benefit checks for parents who don’t owe federal income taxes in the first place. That naturally belies the program’s moniker and Democrats’ “tax cut”…
January 8, 2024
On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in America during his State of the Union address. Six decades later, the nation has…
January 2, 2024
…Columbia experience. It offers a powerful example of how a privately conceived city can provide a great deal of public good. George Phydias Mitchell, a pioneer producer of natural gas,…
January 2, 2024
…Ph.D., is executive director of the Center for Poverty Solutions at the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative research group. Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at…
December 26, 2023
…under medical supervision and on the neighborhoods where they are located—is thus of national significance. Other states, cities, and the federal government are doubtless closely watching these two experiments. That…
December 21, 2023
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
December 19, 2023
…should be more than local angles on national narratives, although these have their place. Think here of how border communities feel about illegal immigration, or coastal communities react to rising…