Frederick Hess explains that not only would student debt forgiveness transfer money to the affluent and successful, but it’s a casual assault on our foundational values.
Amid our political strife, this Thanksgiving can be a time to examine our sources of gratitude for those who wrote the Constitution and those who perpetuated it — not just for our own sake, but for the sake of posterity, write Yuval Levin and Adam White.
Kori Schake et al. explain that protecting the United States requires a strategy of defense in depth — identifying and dealing with global problems where they occur rather than waiting for threats to reach American shores.
AEI President Robert Doar discusses economic recovery from COVID-19 and the future of conservatism on the Knight Foundation’s "The Future of Democracy."
Karlyn Bowman, Jacqueline Clemence, and Samantha Goldstein look at Americans’ attitudes about the coronavirus pandemic and the promising vaccine news. They also look at how Americans’ willingness to return to their normal activities varies by partisanship and generation. Next, the authors compare Donald Trump’s overall and coronavirus ratings and look at trust levels in him, Joe Biden, and others. In their election legitimacy section, they compare the 2000 and 2016 elections with this year’s. Finally, they conclude the year with a look at how Americans celebrate the holidays.
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