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February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…elite colleges and universities nationally were born to married parents who have since stayed married, versus 51 percent of high-school seniors across the country.) At the same time, a majority of my…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
…repeat of staggering taxpayer losses. The coronavirus pandemic tested the nation’s unemployment benefits system more than any previous recession. Lockdowns and mass layoffs starting in March 2020—coupled with unprecedented new…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…of them. But one thing most people agree is that this is a big problem, for higher education and for our nation. Fortunately, most people are wrong on this one….
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…— to find their vocation. Working with like-minded individuals on similar causes, topics or problems can allow friendships to form naturally over shared interests and markers of personal identity. This feedback…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…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
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…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
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
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
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…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
How to Actually Triumph over Poverty
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…