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April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
…numerous ways they can refuse to cooperate with child-welfare investigators at the first point of contact, whatever the nature of the alleged abuse. Thankfully, these legislative efforts failed (for now)….
March 31, 2025
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
…Bill Gates has already planned to do just that, with his foundation, the nation’s largest ($75 billion). Most famously, Henry Ford II resigned from the board of his eponymous foundation…
March 28, 2025
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…vast public housing system, by far the nation’s largest, has the prospect of being “unfrozen”—put to a use other than public housing. NYCHA has finally realized that, though it is…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
When the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) was first administered in 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children were born into married, two-parent homes. By 2023, this number had decreased to six…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…that are struggling so much with depression … with suicide?” Ryan said. “I’m pro-women … [but] we need a national agenda for our boys, too.” Another major Democrat turning his…
March 14, 2025
A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform
Once a sleepy policy area on the national scale, higher education is now a central issue making headlines in the overall political discourse. Believe it or not, the education…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…non-intact families (84%). What’s more: the Success Sequence is broadly popular with Americans of all kinds. A study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that 76% of American parents…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…family stability and fertility. For instance, just 47.6% of Ohio children are raised in intact, married families for the duration of childhood, well below the national average of 53%. This…