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A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
November 21, 2024 | Howard Husock
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
November 15, 2024 | Howard Husock
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
November 12, 2024 | Mark Schneider
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
November 10, 2024 | Howard Husock
NYC Safe Injection Sites Reduce OD Deaths—but Not in the Worst Neighborhoods
November 9, 2024 | Howard Husock
Key Data on Federal Benefits Paid to Illegal Immigrant Households
November 7, 2024 | Matt Weidinger
Introducing the “More Accurate Consumer Price Index”
November 7, 2024 | Scott Winship
Never Let a Crisis End
November 5, 2024 | Howard Husock
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser on the U.S. Housing Crisis
November 5, 2024 | Edward L. Glaeser
Again, Tariffs Didn’t Make American Manufacturing Great
November 4, 2024 | James Pethokoukis
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
November 1, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
November 1, 2024 | Matt Weidinger
A SNAP Reform Framework Focused on the Future
October 30, 2024 | Angela Rachidi
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
October 30, 2024 | Brad Wilcox and Michael Pugh
American Opportunity Index 2024
October 30, 2024 | Joseph B. Fuller
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Are American Workers’ Wages Really Lagging Productivity?
The economic doomsayers have it wrong: Worker pay has tracked with productivity over the last 50 years.
The Dual Promise of the American Dream
A reform conservatism can revive the promise of the Dream for those kids facing long odds.
Forget the Cost of Living. What’s the Cost of Thriving in America?
Two conservative thinkers clash over whether the middle class is more prosperous than a generation ago.