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March 31, 2025
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
…giving at a time it was desperately needed. We can never tell when such a time will come again. It’s important that charitable giving not be disproportionately concentrated. It’s worth noting…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…sites in one critical way: these towers are slated for demolition. For the first time since Robert Moses introduced the controversial “superblock” concept to American urban planning, a New York…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…the federal government relied heavily on one strategy to get out from under its war debt: it tolerated inflation. Since debt repayments are set at the time of borrowing, inflation…
March 24, 2025
The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake
…pause might end, but then the federal government extended it eight times. The president announced that he would forgive your loans. The Supreme Court knocked him down. Then the president said…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…up in stable two-parent homes enjoy, on average, more quality adult time, greater economic resources, and increased emotional support from their parents. More than a decade ago, the obvious relevance…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table. The Department…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education work full time marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…
March 12, 2025
Stop and Go
…clear automated trucking, and automated driving more broadly, was not advancing as quickly as its proponents had hoped, a fact highlighted by high-profile, fatal accidents involving self-driving cars. Time, and technology, however, have…