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March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…such as lead paint removal, or investments such as new boilers or roofs. The law has led small property owners especially to respond by taking apartments they can’t afford to…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…donors founded 11 universities that are today ranked among the nation’s top twenty, including such famous names as Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. We’ve fallen out of…
March 8, 2024
Jason Kelce, Family Man
In his tear-filled farewell speech, Jason Kelce brought his 13-year NFL career to a close by underlining what really mattered in life: marriage and family. The longtime Philadelphia Eagles player, who made the…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
…cost. Colleges, in turn, have even less reason to try to control prices. It’s time to retire the whole apparatus. But is that even feasible? How would students afford college?…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…kids struggling with sexual identity issues among the dead they are not mentioned. The picture that begins to emerge from the book is a sort of Stepford Wives, where if…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
When it comes to realizing the nation’s most important ideals — from the American dream to the “pursuit of happiness” — Utah has a well-deserved reputation for leading out. The…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, is justly famous for underlining the importance of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for our new nation in the Declaration of Independence….
February 27, 2024
Options for Improving the Child Tax Credit Provisions in H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, passed the House on January 31, 2024 and now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. The…
February 16, 2024
Marriage is Key to Living Your Best Life
…couples can pool their assets and afford a life that singles cannot. Stably married men and women in their fifties have more assets compared to their remarried, divorced, and never-married counterparts. But…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
A Sociologist of Religion on Protestants, Porn, and the ‘Purity Industrial Complex’”—so read the title of a recent New Yorker interview in which Isaac Chotiner asked sociologist Samuel Perry about the nexus between…