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March 11, 2025
Democrats’ DOGE Delusions
While occupied with budget bills to keep the government open and set future spending and tax levels, Congress is also cleaning up past messes. Today, the House is expected to…
March 6, 2025
America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion
…of speech. It’s certainly true that DEI and race-focused affirmative action have always lived in an uneasy tension with American ideals. Our founding documents—not to mention our entire national ethos—are…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…child poverty than the breakdown of marriage. And the classic American pursuit of happiness has proven more elusive of late—with reports of happiness falling across the nation in recent years—because…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…to change the trajectory of the nation. But Trump can’t deliver this promise only by cutting wasteful spending. American taxpayers have been forced to fund DEI programs in Europe, drag…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…the Buckeye state. For instance, only 47.6% of children across the state are growing up in an intact, married family—again, well below the national average of 53 percent. This sets…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…opinion also consistent with long-run trends in living standards and opportunity? According to populists on the right and left, Americans have seen meager income growth at best. National conservatives like…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…to provide a clearer picture of evolving employment and skill demands. As the recent National Academies report on AI and work pointed out, this enhanced data, when combined with powerful new AI…
February 7, 2025
Follow Elon Musk’s USAID Model to Free Tenants from Public-Housing Hell
…manage. The first and best reason for exiting public housing is the condition of the projects themselves — and the ill effects on the supposed beneficiaries, the tenants. The nation’s…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
…families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,”…