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Investor Ownership of Single-Family Housing: June 2026 Update
You can download a pdf copy of this report here. Media Myth: Institutional investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices Market Reality:...
View ArticleWhat Do Sarah Lawrence Administrators Know About Their Own Campus?
I recently wrote about a vigil organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Sarah Lawrence College, which was planned for the anniversary of October 7, a day of mourning for Jews after...
View ArticleLeading Colleges and Universities in a “Back to the States” Era, Part II
As the Trump administration has shifted responsibilities away from the Department of Education to state and local leaders, colleges and universities face new challenges including funding. In July, a...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences of Bill Pulte’s FHFA Reforms
This op-ed was first published by Real Clear Markets. You can read the full piece on their website here. Bill Pulte has moved aggressively since taking over the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),...
View ArticleWhat Will the 2026 Midterm Elections Mean for Education?
On November 3, Americans will hit the polls to vote for a new Congress, thousands of state legislators, dozens of governors, and a slew of state referenda. What will the results mean for education?...
View ArticleOct. 7 Is Still Testing Us
Anniversaries clarify. Three years after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, we see that Hamas didn’t simply intend to kill 1,200 men, women and children; wound another 1,500; and seize 251...
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AI Business Models: Teasing Apart Gratis and Libre
Back in 2000, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a graph showing that four countries with unmetered pricing policies for local dial-up internet calls—the...
View ArticleDiscussing FIRE’s free speech rankings: Abrams on “Inside Sources”
Samuel Abrams discusses FIRE’s 2027 College Free Speech Rankings on Inside Sources. The post Discussing FIRE’s free speech rankings: Abrams on “Inside Sources” appeared first on American Enterprise...
View ArticleEven the Trump Energy Department Cannot Resist Meddling
The Office of Energy Dominance Financing (!) of the Department of Energy (DoE) announced on October 5 “a conditional loan commitment of up to $4.2 billion to finance nuclear uprates and modernization...
View ArticleWhy Don’t We Talk More About Family Structure in Schooling?
I’ve long thought family structure deserves far more attention in making sense of educational outcomes. While race and poverty always feature prominently in such analyses, conservatives argue that...
View ArticleCan Broadband Policy Keep Up with Competition? (with Sam Love)
Cable companies are now offering mobile service, wireless carriers are competing for home broadband customers, and satellite providers are even expanding their offerings. As these historically...
View Article“We Are HUNTING Pielke”
How Academic ‘Blacklists’ Impede Serious Work On Climate Science A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list...
View ArticleAssessing the E-Rate Program
The Federal Communications Commission launched the Universal Service Fund in 1998, paid for by a modest 3 percent surcharge on consumers’ monthly telephone bills. But as the program grew and the...
View ArticleThree Years After Oct. 7, Jews Are Still a People Who Sing
Three years ago this week, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping some 250 more in the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Three years later, I am...
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Good News! Students with Disabilities Are Overrepresented in Private School...
Key Points Critics predicted that, once private school choice was implemented on a large scale, students with disabilities would become highly concentrated in the public school system. That hasn’t...
View ArticlePrivate Tutoring Centers—A Bigger Deal than You Think (with Joshua Goodman)
Kumon, Sylvan Learning, Mathnasium, and Huntington Learning Center—these private tutoring chains are familiar names, but they have received little attention from education researchers. According to...
View Article“Behind the Scenes” at the National Academies
Here at THB, I often assemble complex and disparate pieces of information to tell a story that I believe is grounded in evidence and facts. It is rare that such complexity is verified in the...
View ArticleBargaining with the Data Center
A large data center campus can bring billions of dollars of investment and a windfall of tax revenue. It can also use large quantities of electricity and perhaps water, run banks of backup generators,...
View ArticleWho Wins When a State Execution Fails?
“Botched” is a perfectly fine word for golf, cooking or home repair. It seems inadequate for the taking of a life, even the life of Christa Pike, a heinous murderer. In 1996, a jury found Pike guilty...
View ArticleThe Student Loan Default System Moves Beyond the Fax Machine
As of June 2026, 9.3 million federal student loan borrowers were in default, according to the latest federal data. Over five million of those borrowers have been in default since at least 2019—and...
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