New Collection Calls on Policymakers to Rethink Governing in the Digital Age
PRESS RELEASEāModern technology has reshaped markets fundamentally, requiring new policy responses to protect our values, institutions, and relationships.
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The Attention Economy: A Primer
What happens to media as the digital age enhances their ability to engage consumers?
All-Knowing Algorithms: A Primer
What happens to personal data as the digital age deepens their quality, widens their availability, and creates new uses for them?
Frictionless Exchange: A Primer
What happens to markets as the digital age improves their efficiency and introduces them to new domains?
We’re Just Speculating Here…
Most of what we call investment, by contrast, entails merely the buying and selling of assets on the secondary marketāpiles of cash and securities trade hands, but no one builds anything.
Oren Cass and J.D. Vance on the Future of the Republican Party
Oren Cass joins J.D. Vance and Gerald F. Seib for a conversation about the future of conservatism and the GOP at the WSJ Future of Everything conference.
Progressives, Conservatives Hone Messaging on Class Divide, Opportunity
American Compass’s Oren Cass and author J. D. Vance discuss the future of American conservatism at the WSJ Future of Everything conference.
Bidenās Daycare Plan Is Bad for Families
In an op-ed criticizing President Biden’s day care plan, J.D. Vance and Jenet Erickson highlight the findings of American Compass’s Home Building Survey.
Grand Old Party and the Working Class with Leader McCarthy
Leader McCarthy joins American Compass to discuss his efforts to reach out and grow the Republican coalition, what it takes to build a GOP that is better attuned to the concerns of working class Americans, and where he sees the party going in the coming years.
Give Power to the Parents!
In a column on how best to approach family benefits, David Brooks cites the findings of the American Compass Home Building Survey.
Bidenās Free Daycare Plan Isnāt What Americans Really Want
Bonnie Kristian features the American Compass Home Building Survey in a discussion of why President Biden’s free day care plan isn’t what American families actually want.
A Guide to Economic Inequality
American inequality is higher now than at any time since WWII. The gap is wide and getting wider. Read what the data show and why it matters.
Economic Justice in Post-Pandemic America?
A conversation about the post-pandemic U.S. economy, hosted by City College of New Yorkās Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
A Guide to the Semiconductor Industry
A guide to what is happening in the semiconductor industry and how the U.S. fell behind its competitors in the global race for leadership.
Grand Old Party and the Working Class with Leader McCarthy
A conversation with Leader McCarthy about what it will take to build a GOP that is better attuned to the concerns of working class Americans and where he sees the party going in the coming years.
Republicans Unveil Policies To Match āWorking-Class Partyā Claim
Gerald F. Seib highlights American Compass’s Family Income Supplemental Credit plan as an example of recent “new-wave conservative proposals designed to help working-class families.”
How Wall Street Took Over Our Economy
Varun Hukeri features American Compassās We’re Just Speculating Here research on financialization and falling U.S. investment.
Amazon Union Election Wakes Up Washington, Even Some Republicans
American Compass executive director Oren Cass is featured in a Power Up discussion of the Amazon union drive and conservative support for labor organizing.
Fulfillment: A Conversation on Amazon and Regional Inequality with Alec MacGillis
Fulfillment author Alec MacGillis joins American Compass research director Wells King for a conversation exploring what the growth of Amazon means for the future of inequality in the U.S., the pros and cons of āone-click America,ā and how policymakers and consumers should respond.
Oren Cass Joins Tucker Carlson To Discuss Wall Street Investment
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joined Tucker Carlson to discuss our recent research on trends in U.S. investment and the growth of the financial sector.
