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The Young Men Up For Grabs

Young non-white men are key swing voters in 2024, but Democrats don’t speak to them

Elite Misalignment

Understanding the break between elite and everyday interests

A Tech Off-Ramp for Kids with Clare Morell

Clare Morell joins the American Compass Podcast to discuss kids’ addiction to tech, and what governments can do about it.

America On-the-Line

The digital era’s addictive technologies are undermining the foundations of our self-governing republic

Democracy and Culture on the Ballot

One campaign offers a shared culture. The other, disintegrative notions of “diversity.”

We All Have Dreams, but What’s the American Reality?

For most, seeking fortune in the big city ain’t it

The Case of the Disappearing Industrial Crown Jewels…Cracked.

A roundup from Oren Cass about what you should be reading from across the web over the last week to better understand America

Turning Down the Electoral Temperature

Democratic elections aren’t supposed to be life-or-death

What If Honesty Really Is The Best Policy In Politics?

Data suggests Americans can handle the truth if politicians are willing to tell it

New Survey Upends Conventional Wisdom About the American Dream

PRESS RELEASE — The American people reject the story of opportunity, mobility, and consumerism that politicians have been telling them for a generation

The American Wake-Up Call

Politicians are still selling a “Dream” that voters aren’t buying

On the State of Neighboring

The consequences of America’s fraying social fabric in one conversation

The Adulthood Crisis with Sam Pressler

Harvard’s Sam Pressler joins to discuss the developmental crisis for young people who don’t go to college and his new policy framework, Connective Tissue, to address it.

Ya Gotta Have Relationships to Make Relationships

Networks across classes are a particularly valuable form of social capital

Do Progressives “Believe” the Realignment? It’s a Moo Point.

Like a cow’s opinion, you know, it just doesn’t matter. It’s moo.

Why Shouldn’t Dock Workers Earn More than the Pundits Complaining About Them?

A roundup from Oren Cass about what you should be reading from across the web over the last week to better understand America

Oren Cass Joins the Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Oren joins Jon Stewart for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of conservative economics.

Republicans’ Recurring Family Policy Fight

Supporting the indispensable institution is deeply conservative

The New Right and the Fed

Conservatives should recognize it as an extension of the uniparty that needs changing

What Parents Want with Ivana Greco

Ivana Greco joins the American Compass Podcast to make sense of what parents, particularly those who stay at home with their kids, think family policy should look like.

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