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June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…focusing on results that match the model. Second, good educational institutions are voluntary. Government agencies don’t spin the same webs of support that voluntary organizations do. Bureaucratic routines and electronic…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…measure of how people do relative to their parents. Of course, asking “how people do” begs the question of which outcomes matter. We could look at an individual’s hourly wages,…
June 18, 2024
Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems
…the Republican standard bearer’s marital misbehavior eroded our collective commitment to the values and virtues that sustain the institution of marriage? On the left, journalist Matt Yglesias wondered if Trump’s bad example…
June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…as Richard Reeves noted in his book “Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to Do About It.” This pattern doesn’t stop…
May 31, 2024
ACS Has Lost the Plot
…were not necessary Similarly, the report boasts a reduction in kids taken into foster care. What matters, though, is whether kids are safer, not how many of them are in…
May 30, 2024
The Contradictions in Democrats’ Child Tax Credit Expansion Promises
…nonworking parents alike. As a result, nonworking parents—who don’t owe any federal income or payroll taxes—would see the biggest benefit increases, with their CTC benefit payment suddenly matching the tax…
May 23, 2024
Vast Vote-Buying Strategy — ‘Like We Have Never Seen Before’ — Is Laid to Democrats by North Dakota’s Governor
Governor Burgum of North Dakota — a potential running mate with President Trump — is warning that, under the Biden administration, there is “vote-buying going on at a scale like we have…
May 13, 2024
The Biden Administration Crossed a Line in Its Rule on Gender Health Care and Foster Children
What is the best way to support a child diagnosed with gender dysphoria, that is, a child who believes their body doesn’t match the person they really are? A couple…
May 13, 2024
Do Mothers Have “Societal Support”? Does It Count if It Comes from Neighbors?
…it gets exaggerated in media. For instance, Monica Hesse, a columnist at the Washington Post, just before going on her maternity leave, wrote a column about how unsupported American mothers are: “Pregnancy and…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…22%. It’s hardly a way to combat the learning loss of school lockdowns, which, per the National Assessment of Educational Progress, set back math and reading proficiency by two decades, especially for…