Doctor, Patient, and AI
October 5, 2026 | Brent Orrell
AI in health care promises greater efficiency, but only if it balances the objective knowledge of the physician with the subjective wisdom of the patient.
Projects
Current Projects
Opportunity Book
Browse federal policy recommendations from COSM scholars and affiliates focused on expanding opportunity.
Land of Opportunity
A policy handbook that assesses the state of the American Dream and offers practical policy solutions to strengthen opportunity and prosperity in the United States. By strengthening economic growth, expanding opportunity, and restoring the social foundations of family, work, and community, the book argues that we can renew the promise of the American Dream for future generations.
Workforce Futures Initiative
A research collaboration between the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
FREE Initiative
An initiative to educate people, communities, and institutions around the country about how to promote a sense of agency among our nation’s youth, and to partner with them in this effort. We are building a national movement predicated primarily upon local and community action.
Lives Cut Short
A project to document child maltreatment fatalities.
America's Rural Future
A bipartisan endeavor with a shared mission to enable rural prosperity in the 21st century by strengthening economic opportunity, resilience, and quality of life across rural America.
Past Projects
American Renewal
A Conservative Plan to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances.
Edited by Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
Doing Right By Kids
Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity.
By Scott Winship | Yuval Levin | Ryan Streeter
Latest Updates
How Helpful Are Cash Payments to New Mothers Really?
October 4, 2026 | Angela Rachidi
Michigan has become an unlikely testing ground for debates over universal basic income programs. Since...
Can’t Afford a House? Try Getting Married.
October 2, 2026 | Arthur Gailes and Brad Wilcox
From right and left, we keep hearing how hard it is to afford a home....
Governor Sanders’ Medicaid Ad Is Realistic
October 1, 2026 | Kevin Corinth
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders released an ad this week about “Brad,” a fictional character...