2025 Annual Report
Staking Our Claim: American Compass’s 2025 Annual Report.
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2025 Founder’s Letter
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
Trump’s Challenge to Free-Market Capitalism
Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?
Tariffs vs. Free Trade: Oren Cass Debates Larry Summers at Harvard Business School
In November, Harvard Business School hosted a debate between Oren Cass and Katherine Tai on one side, and Larry Summers and Robert Lawrence on the other, over the question: Should Read more…
Summer Fellows
American Compass summer analysts will work in our Washington, D.C. office in research, policy, and communications. Applications are due by February 28.
Oren Cass Speaks to the World Knowledge Forum
Under Trump 2.0, the MAGA (Make America Great Again) economic agenda has become a defining force in American policymaking. In this solo address, Oren Cass, chief economist and founder of Read more…
Trump’s selective populism pits MAGA against Wall Street
President Trump is pioneering a bespoke form of populism — championing workers against corporate elites on the one hand, and protecting big business on the other. … What they’re saying: “While the Old Read more…
The Economic Consequences of the Big Odious Bill
The passage of a highly regressive budget-busting measure demonstrates anew that Donald Trump’s populism is a dangerous sham.
The Limits of Trump’s Revolution Are Laid Bare by the Megabill
The legislation does little to showcase — or cement — Trump’s new coalition.
How true populists should think about Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
There is a position between the old Republican guard and budget fairyland.
Oren Cass Joins the Giving Ventures Podcast
For the third installment in the “What Is the Right?” series, we’re featuring the New Right. While the Freedom Conservatives and Libertarians we’ve spoken with in the last two episodes Read more…
The New Right rides again: Review of ‘The New Conservatives’ by Oren Cass
When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House last fall, a whole host of other politicos and organizations won with him. This includes his campaign staff now working in the administration, Read more…
Oren Cass Joins the Big Ideas Book Club with Steve Hilton
In this episode I am once again joined by Author and Economist Oren Cass to discuss his new book “The New Conservatives” which explores restoring America’s commitment to family, community, Read more…
Oren Cass Joins 2WAY TONIGHT with Mark Halperin
To celebrate American Compass’s Fifth Anniversary and the launch of the New Conservatives, Oren Cass joins 2WAY TONIGHT with Mark Halperin.
Ahead of 2028, Vance, Rubio offer up a vision to the future of the GOP
Both men spoke of reindustrialization, of an America First approach to economic and foreign policy and the role the next generation will play.
The populist right takes a victory lap
A who’s who of Republican elites is set to gather this evening at the National Building Museum for a swanky gala hosted by American Compass, the institutional home of conservative Read more…
Are Congressional Republicans Keeping Trump’s Promises? With Oren Cass
Donald Trump promised to be a different kind of Republican. Reimagining trade and taxes, instituting a populist economic agenda, serving main street instead of K street. Are Congressional Republicans actually Read more…
This small but influential think tank is charting a controversial course for Trump’s populism
Controversial think tank American Compass is working to make sure President Trump’s economic populism lasts well beyond his term — infuriating segments of the conservative establishment along the way. Oren Cass, the group’s founder Read more…
Oren Cass Joins Washington Journal
On the day of the celebration of American Compass’s Fifth Anniversary and the release of the New Conservatives, chief economist Oren Cass joined CSPAN’s Washington Journal to talk about and Read more…
Oren Cass Joins the Breaking Battlegrounds Podcast
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by Oren Cass, chief economist at American Compass and editor of a new book, The New Conservatives, to define conservatism and discuss Read more…
