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March 4, 2024

Social conservatives who care about marriage should think twice about a “per-child” refundable Child Tax Credit

…benefit parameters that took effect October 1, 2023. Shelter costs are assumed to be $1,146 monthly for a single parent without children (median gross rent for a one-bedroom apartment in…

March 4, 2024

The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions

…of happiness,” poll after poll is telling us that millions of Americans are failing at this most important Jeffersonian pursuit, with happiness hitting “record lows” in recent years, according to…

March 1, 2024

How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way

…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…

February 23, 2024

After Milton’s MBTA Housing Defeat, The Way Forward Is With Persuasion, Not Mandates

…Morever, this should not be framed in racial terms: 16 percent of Milton’s residents are Black, and 15 percent are Asian American, Latino, or multiracial. There’s another way to get residents…

February 22, 2024

Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now

…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…

February 22, 2024

Education and the Right

…policy. Meanwhile, AEI’s Ian Rowe and Secretary Guidera relied on their experiences in educational leadership to explore how conservative educational ideas can play out in practice. The event concluded with…

February 20, 2024

The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s

…the Smithian tradition discovered core “anthropological truths”—foremost, that people are by nature free, rational, self-interested, creative, and fallible, but also “sympathetic,” associational, and ethical. Smith, of course, is most well-known…

February 15, 2024

Sacred Sex

…impression that all because of an archaic Christian sexual ethic that forbids pornography, Christian men and communities are rife with “depression,” “unhappiness,” and disrupted marriages. The New Yorker mocked the books, small…

February 14, 2024

Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis

…of roughly three-quarters of a million people is the fourth-richest in the United States, with a median income of just under $150,000. And yet feelings of isolation have emerged as…

February 14, 2024

Why You Should Get Married

…is a bad deal for men in our egalitarian age. (He was also charged in 2023 with rape and human trafficking in Romania.) “I don’t think many men actually benefit from marriages…