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March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
When Larry Bird won his first National Basketball Association championship with the Boston Celtics in 1982, he made one of the best locker room interview comments ever. Between puffs of a…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…is certainly important, but a national conversation about the decline of marriage requires that we understand the consequences it has for the nation. Lack of Societal Support The dispiriting part…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…nominally nonpartisan organizations such as the National Academy of Education and the American Educational Research Association, the politics of the teacher unions, and even the legacy media coverage of our education debates….
March 4, 2024
Exploring America’s Social Safety Net And The Political Fights Around It
…government came up with a uniform way to measure poverty by comparing a family’s income against a national threshold. In 1959, the poverty rate sat at around 22 percent. By…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…this is the nature of the topic. We will never know exactly why and the questions we are left with may better be answered by philosophy or theology than sociology….
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
When it comes to realizing the nation’s most important ideals — from the American dream to the “pursuit of happiness” — Utah has a well-deserved reputation for leading out. The…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, is justly famous for underlining the importance of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for our new nation in the Declaration of Independence….
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…look after the Nation’s child crop?” It seems like a lovely sentiment, but the nation’s child crop is considerably larger than it was back then and the percentage of children…
February 29, 2024
Recalling Pandemic Lessons on “Self-Certifying” Eligibility
…programs to allow beneficiaries to self-certify their eligibility. That guidance directly affects a handful of programs with limited funding that offer a variety of employment-related services. Naturally the department argues…
February 29, 2024
Addressing the False Claims from Industry Groups on Pilot Testing SNAP Restrictions
…Food Association and the National Grocers’ Association—sent letters to Congressional leaders opposing funds for these pilots. Although these groups most likely oppose the pilots because they may hurt their bottom…