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Evers Veto Is a Step Backward on Worker Freedom
This article was originally published in WisPolitics. Wisconsin has had trouble getting citizens their hard-earned licenses in a timely fashion, and a recent veto by Governor Evers isn’t going to help matters. Sara Wuorinen had to wait at least 16 months to...
Outward Action Is Good for Your Brain
This article was originally published in Discourse Magazine. We can help solve our mental health crisis by getting out of our own heads Beyond a given point man is not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put...
The Poor Get Poorer with ESG Investing
This article was originally published in Newsweek. Climate activists are pursuing increasingly extreme measures to fight for environmental policy changes. In recent months, activists have vandalized works of art around the world,...
AI is Changing the Future of Work. Prepare Kids the Right Way.
This article was originally published in Real Clear Policy. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are occurring at an unprecedented rate, garnering countless headlines and sparking concerns about the transformative effects of new technologies, especially in the...
States Like California Shouldn’t Let Occupational Licensing Limit New Workers
This article was originally published in the Orange County Register. Some states are having a hard time keeping current residents happy. Out-migration from the Golden State more than doubled as the state experienced the largest reduction in population in the United...
The American Dream is Alive, But Doubts Looms This July 4th
This article was originally published in Fortune. The Declaration of Independence, adopted on this day 247 years ago, expressed inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Although the nation initially fell short of recognizing these rights...
American Dream 2023 Snapshot: The Health and State of the American Dream
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With the 2024 presidential election starting to take shape, America’s spiral toward further polarization and tribalism seems poised to continue.
Dreaming Our Way Toward Redemption
This article was originally published in Discourse Magazine. In his 1931 book, “The Epic of America,” James Truslow Adams wrote that the American Dream “is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman...
Flourishing Fundamentals: Families, Opportunities, and Data-Driven Narratives
This article was originally published in Newsweek. With talk of a "bull market" entering mainstream discourse, Americans should tread carefully. The U.S. economy may be showing signs of improvement, but it is still weaker post-pandemic than before it. U.S....
Mental-Health Awareness Can Be Bad for Mental Health
This article was originally published in the Wall Street Journal. Rather than ruminating, turn outward and engage with the world. We hear a lot about America’s mental-health crisis, and the crisis is real. But part of the problem is that we talk about it too...
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