Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private ...

Kent’s career in higher education policy renders him ideally suited to confront the unique challenges the Department of Education faces today.

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

From an economic perspective, unintended consequences turn tidy government plans into costly messes. Such interventions often create economic distortions that government planners couldn't foresee ...

The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...

Last week, a colleague of mine sent me a copy of an email that they had received from ClimateBrief, a UK-based advocacy journalism group. The email asked for examples of how their published research ...

On February 7, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado offered the following advice on X: “Dear Speaker Johnson, Simply pass every executive order President Trump has signed, and you will go down as the ...

As these AI tools continue to evolve, economists and policy analysts who master prompt engineering and integrate these technologies into their workflows will find themselves better equipped to ...

A recent study put to the test an idea that has become increasingly influential over the past decade: To help kids thrive, one of the best things you can do is to give their parents cash with no ...

For decades, conventional wisdom has held that the trajectory of American family life is heading in one direction: towards the abolition of marriage as the stable anchor of family life and a more ...

The legislation to rescind $1.1 billion for the public media system means that the CPB is essentially an empty shell. The fact that the system has alienated a large swathe of the country is the ...