by Will Marshall Americans traditionally have regarded public education as a formative institution integral to the success of democratic self-government. That’s why we’ve made it compulsory: By law, parents must send their children to public or accredited private schools, though exceptions are sometimes made for home schooling. But if our…

By Malena Dailey Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is the latest development in the battle over the moderation of online content, but his free speech arguments fall flat in the face of how users today interact with social media. Trump-style conservatives have jumped at the chance to support Musk in…

By William Galston We wrote “The New Politics of Evasion” to spark a discussion about the future course of the Democratic Party, and we are pleased that Stan Greenberg has responded to it at length. While he agrees with us about the counterproductive stances that Democrats have adopted on cultural…

By Lindsay Mark Lewis I used to smoke cigarettes. I don’t anymore. I completely stopped smoking and switched to an electronic inhalable tobacco product called IQOS. It’s the only one of its kind authorized by the Food and Drug Administration as a modified risk tobacco product and the only product…

By Michael Mandel As Congress considers several major bills intended to transform the tech-ecommerce ecosystem, it is worth considering what might be lost for workers. Based on our analysis of BLS data, the tech-ecommerce ecosystem added 1.4 million jobs between September 2017 and September 2021, the most recent data available…

Today, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), announced the imminent introduction of an antitrust bill aimed at a handful of America’s most successful technology companies. The bill, mirroring similarly misguided proposals in the House, would do irreparable damage to the digital ecosystem that has put…

By Arielle Kane The COVID-19 virus is endemic — meaning it’s here to stay. Getting to a 70% or 80% vaccination rate will not stop breakthrough cases, hot spots, and vulnerable people from getting ill. As such, the United States needs to pivot its COVID-19 response strategy to focus on…

By Tressa Pankovits As the delta variant drives up infection rates in every state in the nation, Americans face an urgent national imperative: Making sure our public schools open and operate safely this fall. We can’t allow our children to suffer another round of large-scale learning losses as they did…

By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Will Marshall This piece first appeared in USA Today. Read it here. America is at a COVID-19 crossroads. For the first time since the highly effective vaccines became widely available in the spring, the new case rate is back on the rise due to the…