Tax Cuts for the Coalition We Have
The old GOP dictated Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. His new coalition should shape its future.
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The Once and Future President
Trump won with a surprising coalition. How does he keep it?
Different Ways of Getting the Wrong Answer on Poverty
Neither ‘free’ money nor blanket work requirements address the different types of assistance needed
It’s Time for a Bonus, Baby
A Trump-Vance administration should unabashedly support new parents
Building Blocks for Childcare Reform
Families need resources and options, not an overengineered subsidizing of demand
Silver Linings Playbook
The Right has changed since 2015. America has, too, in ways that challenge conservatives to update their economic prognosis.
What the ‘Success Sequence’ Misses
Long-term flourishing requires a deeper conversation than proponents admit.
The Nation Supporting the Family
Conservatives of every ideological stripe agree: The key to a healthy, well-functioning society is strong families. Families are where children are born, raised, and formed into the adults they will Read more…
Gimme Shelter
Only the Rich Can Play is an uncomfortable reminder that no matter how much you may appreciate an idea’s intellectual lineage or conceptual clarity, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. It deserves inclusion on political science syllabi as a case study in how a billionaire’s idea can flow from a Davos brainstorming session to Washington’s halls of power and become the law of the land.
We Need to Listen Better to Working-Class Parents
The Ethics and Public Public Policy Center’s Patrick T. Brown highlights the American Compass Child Tax Credit Survey in a discussion of what working-class parents want from family policy.
Working Americans Are Speaking. Are Politicians Listening?
In an adaptation of his conclusion to the Edgerton Essays anthology, Patrick T. Brown discusses what he learned from editing the collection of perspectives from the working class.
Conclusion to the Edgerton Essays
These essays captured the unfiltered thoughts of working-class Americans in all their complicated diversity.
A Canadian Warning on Universal Child Care
Any discussion of the effects of government-subsidized day care for children inevitably turns to Canada. In 1997, the province of Quebec introduced a universal child care program, offering parents a Read more…
The Consultant Class Scores an Own Goal
With every step away towards a pure market logic and away from physical communities and lived-in traditions, the sporting world will find that the magic and allure of what has made them so compelling start to disappear.
Putting Down Roots
Olmstead has created a work of lyric subversion, luring you in with glowing prose while slowly unveiling the depth of her critique.
Elite Overproduction or Mid-Tier Underproduction?
One way of reading a story of American discontent is in its newspapers. Not just in their pages, but in how their ongoing decline illustrates broader tendencies fueling popular frustration.
Family Form Follows Function
Effective family policy begins from the institution’s ultimate roles and purposes.
