Reconsidering Preferred Lender Lists in the Wake of the One Big Beautiful...
Key Points Roughly one in four graduate borrowers are expected to turn to the private student loan market to cover financing gaps created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s elimination of Grad PLUS...
View ArticleTrump Drug Pricing and the Iron Lung Fallacy
President Donald Trump is trying to best Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in demonizing pharmaceutical companies and using government power to lower drug prices. He announced...
View ArticleThe Missing Measure: Family Structure and Child Outcomes
Family structure is an important factor in understanding child outcomes, yet it is rarely reflected in how government agencies report data. Recent research from the American Enterprise Institute and...
View ArticleDoes a Reduction in the Supply of Oil Make the Economy Stronger?
In a Wall Street Journal Economics Newsletter column citing a new draft paper by Diego R. Känzig and Luca Zanotti of Northwestern University and James H. Stock (KSZ) of Harvard, Grep Ip posits that...
View ArticleDoctor, Patient, and AI
The phrase “humans in the loop” has that made-in-a-(frontier)-lab sound to it, language manufactured to soothe anxiety about artificial intelligence without specifying what the loop is and where we...
View ArticleUniversities Are Studying Their Problems, But Can They Fix Them?
Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on research funding by the Trump administration, the...
View Article“No Accountability, No Justice, and No Integrity”
For years, the American Psychological Association has had a problem it has been unable or unwilling to address, summed up by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) as a “persistent and pernicious pattern of...
View ArticleStudents Need to Learn to Love America Too
Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I...
View ArticleSupport Starter Homes, Not Looser Lending or Financial Fixes
Housing affordability has Washington searching for fixes. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is considering reducing the number of credit reports required for a mortgage to lower...
View ArticleBlue November Mailbag: The Big Picture
Last week, I shared what I thought a blue wave in November might mean for education, addressing the questions I hear most frequently from journalists and education policy insiders. The column provoked...
View ArticleStudents Are Still Talking—Universities Should Build on That
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) new College Free Speech Rankings tell a now all too familiar story about American campuses. Cancel culture is rampant, with too many...
View ArticleHow Helpful Are Cash Payments to New Mothers Really?
Michigan has become an unlikely testing ground for debates over universal basic income programs. Since 2024, new mothers participating in Rx Kids can receive up to $7,500 in unconditional cash...
View ArticleI Watched Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Make a Movie at My High School That...
Thirty-five years ago, a film crew descended on my high school, Worcester Academy. Trailers filled with cameras and costumes arrived at the end of the summer before my sophomore year to shoot a movie...
View ArticleTechnology and Policy as Force Multipliers in Advancing Economic Mobility for...
Key Points Emerging technologies present opportunities and risks. AI, automation, assistive technologies, remote-work tools, and digital platforms can reduce workplace barriers and improve...
View ArticleAn Expert Explains How the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Will Work
The new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, or FSTC, will take effect in January 2027. The program, written into law by Congress in 2025, has been described as the nation’s largest school choice program....
View ArticleHow Child Abuse and Maltreatment Show Up Later in Life
Tennessee tried unsuccessfully on Wednesday to execute Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman who brutally murdered a teenager when she was 18. Many observers rightly wonder whether Pike would have...
View ArticleCan’t Afford a House? Try Getting Married.
From right and left, we keep hearing how hard it is to afford a home. “A lot of young people are saying, ‘Housing is way too expensive,’” Vice President JD Vance has said. He blamed illegal...
View ArticleDivining the Relationship Between Interest Rates and Oil Prices
In a recent Wall Street Journal “Investing” column, Heather Gillers and Sam Goldfarb (GG) report a seeming paradox: Interest rates (on Treasury bonds) are rising sharply “despite a decline in oil...
View ArticleAll Hail the Darling Killer
“The End of Reading Is Here,” blared a recent headline in the Atlantic. Not in my house. It’s as crowded with books as ever. Despite pleas from my wife to deal with the clutter, I have no plans to...
View ArticleAustralia’s News Media Bargaining Code: Second Movement and AI Coda
On August 27, Australia’s News Media Bargaining Charge Act, passed by the Federal Parliament a week before, came into force. The regulations require specific social media or search services earning...
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