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August 16, 2023

How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah

…stability is losing ground. As for work, there has been a decline in the share of young men engaged in full-time work in Utah, much like the rest of the…

August 14, 2023

What ‘Earth Mama’ Doesn’t Tell Us About Foster Care

…is not true of “Earth Mama,” a recently released film by first-time director Savanah Leaf. The story is about a pregnant woman, Gia, whose two children are in the foster…

August 14, 2023

Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent

…part time, or work full time or more. (“The Coming Push to Revive Work-Free Child Tax Credits“) Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Goal: Permanently remove the annual earnings requirement for…

August 14, 2023

The Narcissism of Small Diffidences

…part of an effort to ensure he would devote his time to studying instead of taking time to hang around with friends. Most of her interactions with him were about…

August 10, 2023

The Rowe Show

On today’s Remnant—which happens to be more than a year in the making—Jonah’s joined for the first time by Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at AEI and the author of…

August 3, 2023

Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”

…that its hostility to capitalism had thrown it off course: “Perhaps it is time for the trustees and staff to examine the question of our obligations to our economic system…

August 2, 2023

The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage

…is stable over time. It is about the same whether the unmarried state is due to divorce, separation, death of spouse or never having married,” Peltzman says. What’s more, he…

July 25, 2023

What Relationship Outsourcing Says About Our Culture

How many of our relationships can we outsource? Apparently, there’s no end. A recent article in The New York Times describes a new kind of professional, a “surrogate partner,” who…

June 22, 2023

In An Age Of Low Social Trust, Stopping By Your Neighbor’s House Is Weird And Creepy

It was presaged during the pandemic: “Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs,” the New York Times reported in April 2021. “They can keep that too-chatty neighbor…

June 11, 2023

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects

…important over time, with fewer Americans willing to date or marry across the aisle. Dating apps and websites report a growing share of users setting political criteria for matches. The Survey…