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December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…If President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect Vance, and Congress want their policies to be evaluated based on whether future voters are better off than in the past, it obviously matters that…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…that high school graduates have mastered key subjects has fallen out of fashion. This month’s results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study are the latest bad news on that…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…chips would rise from zero to 28 percent. Even if these optimistic forecasts come to pass, it is not clear whether these projected increases in U.S. production would materially advance…
December 12, 2024
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…who have become more accepting of extra-marital sex in recent years. This trend has been especially pronounced among Democrats since what Matt Yglesias called the “Great Awokening” (circa 2014), when many Democrats lurched hard…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
US scores on the 2023 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are another sign not only that American students are losing ground in math and science, but that the…
December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
Last week’s release of 2023 scores from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)—an international assessment measuring fourth and eighth graders in math and science—offers a fresh look at…
December 3, 2024
The ‘Fentanyl Election’ Is Over. Now What?
…the finger somewhere else. “Bernie Sanders might look at this material and, not unfairly, call the ongoing suffering of the opioid epidemic a Purdue Pharma plot.” Maybe. But blaming pharmaceutical…
December 3, 2024
Avoiding an Unemployment Loan Bailout
Taxpayers in most states may have dodged a billion-dollar bullet on election day. That is, if the outcome had been different, liberal lawmakers would have been uniquely positioned to bail…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…happening here, it’s this idea that families matter, and having intact families matters. By the way, I should mention that I come from a family that is not intact. My parents…