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November 6, 2014
How to Fix Congress: Five Steps To Restore Trust, Transparency, And Empowerment

After years of frustration and months of feverish work, the Republican Party has finally won back the U.S. Senate, and with it, undivided control of Congress. But no sooner had […]
September 23, 2014
A Pro-Family, Pro-Growth Tax Reform
Too many Americans believe the American dream is slipping away for them and their children. They see their cost of living rise while their paychecks remain stagnant. They see an economy that benefits stockbrokers but not stock clerks. They see the ladder of economic opportunity being pulled farther up and out of their reach.
July 31, 2014
How Our Broken Accreditation System Increases College Costs

One of the most disheartening trends in America today is the steep and relentless increase in the cost of higher education. As almost everything else in our economy has gotten […]
May 5, 2014
An Anti-Cronyism and Free-Market Agenda

Today America faces a large and growing Opportunity Deficit. Up and down our once-flourishing economy, a new and unnatural sclerosis is taking hold. For millions of working families of or […]
May 1, 2014
Conservatives’ Moment to Stand Against Cronyism

Most Americans know that our revolutionary history began when a handful of brave patriots tossed crates of tea into Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxation. But what they might assume […]
April 7, 2014
Ex-Im Bank and the GOP’s Cronyism Test
Imagine a reformed Republican party seizing the moral high ground against political corruption and economic dysfunction. Imagine its leaders, advocating populist, free-market reforms to restore jobs, growth, and fairness to the economy. Faster than you can say “TARP,” we could pin the Left between their egalitarian facade and their elitist agenda, and force them to choose between K Street and Main Street.
March 25, 2014
It will be our ideas that win in 2014
With things shaping up to be a positive year for Republican candidates, conventional wisdom in Washington says that the best thing conservatives can do is nothing. That our strategy should be to sit on our hands, keep our heads down and let President Obama’s failures preserve a Republican majority in the House and win one in the Senate.
February 7, 2014
The farm bill vs. America
The farm bill Congress just passed Tuesday is a monument to Washington dysfunction, and an insult to taxpayers, consumers and citizens.
January 21, 2014
To create jobs, promote access to opportunity via human networks

Like most Americans, I support the ability of individuals to collect unemployment insurance for a limited amount of time. But in order to start solving the problem of long-term unemployment, […]
January 16, 2014
New School: A Plan for State-Based Accreditation of Alternative Higher Education

The challenge of American higher education policy today is reconciling two seemingly contradictory facts. First, higher education is more important to economic opportunity and middle-class security than ever before. And […]