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May 8, 2024
Beltway Liberals Are Playing Name Games to Expand the Welfare State
…for work in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.” But policymakers in Washington are, unsurprisingly, out of step with popular opinion. A recent Brookings Institution seminar sunnily titled “Securing the…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…vexing, blind-men-and-the-elephant feeling to all this. School district officials and education policymakers will tell you the post-pandemic lesson is that schools need to adapt and be more flexible, appealing, and…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…mixed feelings, how do we think parents and policymakers should think about SEL? We’ll put it this way: If a principal is sending home notes reporting that teachers are making…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…importance of marriage for economic security and the pursuit of happiness, policymakers and cultural elites must do a better job of making marriage attractive and attainable to ordinary young adults….
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
Birthrates are low and falling in the United States, and commentators and policymakers are starting to realize this is a problem. It’s tempting to assume that this is about affordability: People aren’t…
April 23, 2024
Neglected Representation in Foster Care
…These proposals are far from revolutionary. But absent the attention of the court system and lawmakers, foster children will continue to get inadequate legal representation. In the vacuum created by…
April 18, 2024
The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US
…and, unsurprisingly, federal lawmakers are using rising levels of food insecurity to advocate for expansions to federal government programs. Unfortunately, policymakers are conflating hunger and food insecurity – a subjective…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…to confront the roots of these problems without regard to their ideological provenance. The professors, journalists, policymakers, professionals and Hollywood tastemakers who dominate the heights of our culture seem to…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…millions of independent contractors, the self-employed, and others never before eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) checks. But in some of the worst policy choices of all time, lawmakers failed to…
April 3, 2024
The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom
…to focus its grant making. By striking down the Fearless contest, the courts could undermine the basic tenets of what the conservative Philanthropy Roundtable calls “philanthropic freedom”— grant makers’ discretion…