Ten Weeks Until the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Goes Live
On January 1, 2027, the heralded federal scholarship tax credit (FSTC) goes live. Enacted by Congress in 2025 as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), it allows taxpayers to claim a...
View ArticleEducators Should Embrace the “Science of Math.” Here’s Why
The science of reading boom has created a groundswell of interest in whether there’s an analog for math. One of the more interesting thinkers on this count is Daniel Ansari, a professor of psychology...
View Article“Affordability” Isn’t an Impossibility
The past three election cycles have all been about one issue: rising prices. The result: incumbents lose. No mystery why. The Hoover Institution’s John Cochrane, aka the Grumpy Economist, notes that...
View ArticleSocial Media Age Gating and Parental Behaviors: Unexpected Outcomes in...
In July, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner released the first report evaluating survey evidence of changing attitudes and behaviors attributable to the country’s social media under-16 age restriction...
View ArticleThe ‘See No Evil’ Approach to Substance-Exposed Babies Is Leading to Their...
Earlier this year, 30-year-old Ashton Marie Leeper and 47-year-old Derrick Dwayne Carter of Henrico, Virginia, were charged with the murder of their 1-month-old infant. In June, police officers found...
View ArticleCan You Tell the Education Scholar from the Conspiracy Kook?
Academe is a good gig, especially if you’re keen to dress ideological screeds up in the trappings of learned expertise. A MAGA kook who posts long Substack articles insisting the 2020 election was...
View ArticleCan “Sold a Story” Change How America Teaches?
By a considerable margin, Emily Hanford is our most consequential education journalist. This is not idle praise. Few reporters covering any field can claim to have changed professional practice and...
View ArticleDefending the Endangerment Finding Rescission
In separate articles in the Summer 2026 issue of Regulation, Jonathan Adler and Henry Miller criticize the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent rescission (EPA 2026) of its previous finding (EPA...
View ArticleIntroducing AEI’s Graduate School Tuition Cut Tracker
In 2006, the US government made a deal with the nation’s graduate schools: Charge whatever you like, and we’ll give your students a loan to fund it. Unsurprisingly, many universities took them up on...
View ArticleWho Is Competing to Connect America?
A mobile phone may use a wireless carrier network and connect through a cable provider’s broadband service via Wi-Fi in a home. Consumers might not notice the distinction, but it matters how...
View ArticleA Grand Bargain to Reform the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act:...
Key Points The landmark 1975 law now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was established to ensure that children with special needs have the opportunity to attend public...
View ArticleNYC’s “One Shot” Rent-Help Plan Gives Mamdani a Whole New Way to Squeeze...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first nine months in office leave no doubt: To him, New York City’s housing problems are the fault of private landlords. That mindset inspired the “rental ripoff” hearings that...
View ArticleThe Secret Lessons of “Mad Men”
The New York Times recently released its ranking of the top 100 shows of the 21st century. Breaking Bad came in at first, The Wire at second, and Mad Men at third. Mad Men is my favorite show, but I...
View ArticleWhy HUD’s Pushback Against DEI Mortgages Is Good for Black Wealth
It must be viewed as courageous for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner to announce an investigation of Wells Fargo for alleged racial bias in mortgage lending—bias that favors...
View ArticleLessons on Innovation from Nobel Prizes in Economics
Nobel Prizes in economics are awarded for authoring work in economics of “eminent significance” providing “the greatest benefit to humankind.” The recipients provide us with lessons in economics. But...
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Playing by the Rules: High School Varsity Sports and Student Discipline
Key Points Combining day-level student discipline data with complete varsity sports roster data for 268,000 Indiana high school students in 2022–23, we find a consistent “double decline” in discipline...
View ArticleHow We Tell the American Story
Earlier this month, I sat at The New School in New York listening to Walter Isaacson talk about how we tell stories about America. He was speaking at the launch of the Center for the American...
View ArticleToward a New Golden Age of Science: A Conversation with Michael Kratsios,...
Walk-ins will not be accepted. You must be pre-registered to attend. The scientific enterprise is at an inflection point. Rapid advances in AI and widespread popular discontent with established...
View ArticleSocial Justice and Politicizing Psychotherapy
The murder of George Floyd in 2020 underscored the theme of police brutality emphasized by the Black Lives Matter movement. In response, governments, corporations, and universities embraced an...
View ArticleLessons from New Mexico: Using Public Nuisance Laws to Compel Platform...
Imposing enormous damages awards may incentivize some defendant companies to voluntarily redesign litigation-spawning products and services. If changing some design elements can prevent plaintiff...
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