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November 21, 2023

Defining Poverty Up

Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime…

November 20, 2023

The Next Time States Are “Swimming in Money” Make Them Repay Their Federal Loans

The pandemic was full of firsts, including the first time states received hundreds of billions of federal dollars they could use to shore up their depleted state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The…

November 17, 2023

Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’

…Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, social scientist Richard V. Reeves explained that boys are falling well behind their female peers. “There are very big gaps in terms…

November 8, 2023

Measuring the Geography of Social Networks

…of individuals’ real-life social networks, this data provides researchers with the rare opportunity to measure real-world social networks at population scale and ask: who knows whom, and does this matter?…

November 1, 2023

The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union

…families. But none of it will matter if we are not also able to restore our lost sense of shared belonging and common purpose by dint of being Americans. Without…

October 31, 2023

Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits

In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, famously issued Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that…

October 31, 2023

It Takes Two

…influences on their children? These questions matter, because, in the real world, the alternative to children living with a single parent is not always two nurturing, married, biological parents who…

October 27, 2023

What Happened to the American Dream?

…from its immigration heterodoxies, those concessions are mostly framed as a matter of coalition building and pragmatic political necessity. The underlying liberal social model is assumed to be basically compatible…

October 27, 2023

What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage

…obligation to be the best fathers they can be” regardless of their marital status. We agree with Reeves about this obligation: fatherhood matters even if a marriage never took place…

October 25, 2023

Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit

Every culture has its famous myths, such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, and the world of politics is no different. Take, for example, President Joe Biden’s claims that…