Our cultural gender issues: The triumph of error
How did we ever get to this point? And so quickly?
I routinely try to ignore national news channels...
Why does the House Speaker matter, anyway?
It would be a stretch to say that the US government came to a standstill after GOP members of the House unseated...
The real lesson of the China Shock
A fantastically high share of our debate over economic policy involves a false lesson of the China...
Some surprising lessons from COVID-19 learning loss
Last month, my colleague Dagney Faulk and I published a study on COVID-19-related learning loss in Indiana...
Trump didn’t cause the Ukraine war
More than a year into the Biden presidency, Vladimir Putin has invaded a sovereign neighboring country and,...
Don’t weaponize the 14th Amendment
Politics would be a lot simpler if one side could prevent the other from running for office.
Why good investigative journalism matters
Recently, a couple of reporters at The New York Times published an intriguing story about conversations between...
College debt, exacerbated
Having an educated populace has always been seen as a necessary component of our constitutional republic. Citizens...
Braun, Young and Pence should rebuke Trump
Former President Donald Trump says and does so many outlandish things that it has become tempting to just ignore him. With his...
Deference, sir, is no crime
I was not raised to say “sir” or “ma’am,” so those words have never been part of my regular vocabulary, except for...