As Vladimir Putin continues his saber-rattling near Ukraine, Kori Schake argues that although the Biden administration has done many things well in its handling of the crisis, the president himself has failed. The key problems are his decision-making process, which relies too heavily on like-minded advisers, and his failure to explain the significance of the situation to Americans. If we want to prevent Putin from invading his neighbor, she writes, "President Biden needs to up his game."

While Russia threatens our allies abroad, inflation threatens our prosperity at home. As Phil Gramm and Mike Solon argue, "This inflation has been driven by an explosion of federal spending." Yet policymakers may still pass more massive spending bills, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is promoting what she calls "modern supply-side economics," which would decrease employment and reduce production. "It is hard to recall a greater disconnect between economic reality and public policy in American history," Gramm and Solon write.

Howard Husock describes how government housing projects destroyed Detroit's once-thriving Black Bottom neighborhood in the 1950s. The decline of the projects that followed serves as a sobering counterexample to contemporary social engineers who think they can build better neighborhoods than the residents themselves can.

Seniors are staying in the workforce longer than ever before. That's a good thing, argues Andrew G. Biggs in a recent statement to the Joint Economic Committee. Extended work lives have helped millions of older Americans gain financial security for their retirement, and Congress can make it easier for them to do so.

Writing in Commentary, Robert Pondiscio laments the "pedagogy of the depressed" that pervades American public schooling. Educators burden children with the notion that they must solve the world's problems, while assigned readings promote a bleak vision of society. "American education needs nothing as badly as a reset," he writes, "a rethinking of the social contract between teachers, parents, and other stakeholders in schools."