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March 28, 2024
Finally, a Chance to Start Getting Higher Ed Right
…higher education, even for voters and policymakers who have neither the time nor the inclination to track the vagaries of campus goings-on. Major figures—including many donors—are staking out positions critical…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…models and the active encouragement of parents and friends who have degrees. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, a professor of urban planning at the University of Southern California and a native of rural…
March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…too blunt an instrument to reach these households.” But if rent stabilization is here to stay, lawmakers need at least to make sure that property owners can stay in business….
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…here—and an opportunity. Policymakers who are troubled by this state of affairs but unsure how to respond may be inclined to look to the K–12 playbook, thinking that what’s needed…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
Few were surprised when deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) retired in December. While Republican leaders tend to exit quickly after losing committee gavels or leadership posts, the additional departure of other respected senior lawmakers in both parties is damaging…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…is attributable to women becoming parents. For college-educated women seeking to maintain a career and start a family, these realities are impossible to ignore. For their part, federal lawmakers are…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…Utah policymakers advanced policies designed to reinforce marriage and strong and stable families across the state. These policies reflect their data-driven understanding of what is required to advance the welfare…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…heavy price. But policymakers — including the president — pay too little attention to marriage, and its importance to the underlying social fabric of our country. What, then, could Biden…
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…Elizabeth Warren on the need for greater government regulation of the economy. This may be one of the oddest “horseshoes” in American politics. Skepticism of free markets, which has historically…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…say. Policymakers fail to acknowledge the precipitous declines in dating, marriage, and childbearing, and the effects these have on loneliness. Murthy’s list of solutions for today’s loneliness crisis had little…