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June 8, 2023
Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?
…of this history, can you explain what Blaine Amendments are and why they’re significant? Nicole: In 1875, U.S. Rep. James Blaine of Maine sought to amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…(NLSY).1The success sequence seems like common sense. In an interview, Nobel Laureate James Heckman called the success sequence a fact, adding: “When children or young adults have a child out…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
April 20, 2023
Religion’s Refusal to Die
…James Madison’s understanding of religion’s place, or lack thereof, in a political community. AEI’s Benjamin Storey and St. John’s College’s Michael Grenke considered the religious element of human nature through…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…primary cause of low proficiency rates among black and Hispanic Americans. In 1966, sociologist James Coleman published a landmark 700-page study of educational opportunity known as the Coleman Report, which…
February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
Those trying to ride a corporate unicorn to a major IPO should consider the lessons of their nineteenth-century forebears. On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…pregnancy to criminal-justice involvement, children raised in single-parent homes are at much higher risk of negative life outcomes than those raised in two-parent families. According to Nobel laureate James Heckman…
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…Panel Ross Douthat, Nonresident Fellow, AEI Kay Coles James, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Virginia Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Moderator: Ryan Streeter, Director of Domestic Policy,…