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July 02, 2025

Have You Heard the Good News?

The Free Press
To actually strengthen the American Dream, we need to start from truth and hard statistical facts, not selectively chosen problems, demagogue mendacity, and convenient scapegoats designed to inflame people against each other.
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July 02, 2025
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Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration

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July 01, 2025
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Lessons from the New Cold War

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July 04, 2025
Financial Times

Zohran Mamdani Is Wrong — Of Course Billionaires Should Exist

By Michael R. Strain
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July 03, 2025
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Details of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

By Kyle Pomerleau

Education

Op-Ed
July 03, 2025
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Making Sense of Mahmoud v. Taylor

By Robert Pondiscio
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July 02, 2025
AEIdeas

Congress Could Rein In Graduate Student Loans

By Preston Cooper

Foreign and Defense Policy

Article
July 03, 2025
Johns Hopkins University Press

Russian Power in Decline: A Demographic and Human Resource Perspective

By Nicholas Eberstadt
One Pager
July 03, 2025

China’s Continental Conundrum: Nuclear Geopolitics and American Strategy in the Western Pacific

By Kyle Balzer | Dan Blumenthal

Health Care

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July 01, 2025
Law & Liberty

The Path to Entitlement Reform

By James C. Capretta
Press
June 29, 2025

Discussing: HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel: Gottlieb on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’

By Scott Gottlieb

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Op-Ed
July 02, 2025
The Wall Street Journal

Mamdani Brings Third World Prejudices to New York

By Sadanand Dhume
Op-Ed
July 01, 2025
The Free Press

This Is Peak Trump

By Matthew Continetti

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July 02, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Will Warp NYC’s Housing Market — and Hurt Us All

By Howard Husock
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July 02, 2025
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NPR and PBS Need to Play Ball for Federal Funding

By Howard Husock

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Multimedia
July 02, 2025

Professor Robert George on Truth and the Age of Feeling

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July 02, 2025
The Wall Street Journal

Mamdani Brings Third World Prejudices to New York

By Sadanand Dhume

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July 03, 2025
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Rescue Mission

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July 03, 2025
AEIdeas

The Open App Markets Act: How “Competition” Reform Would Open America’s Digital Doors to Hackers and Foreign Adversaries

By Shane Tews

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July 02, 2025

Prevalence of GSE Appraisal Waivers

By Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter
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Immigration Policy and Its Macroeconomic Effects in the Second Trump Administration

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July 01, 2025
AEIdeas

AEI Housing Market Indicators, June 2025

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June 27, 2025

Analysis of Senator Mike Lee’s Bill to Sell Bureau of Land Management Land for Housing

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June 26, 2025

Trump Is Half Wrong and Half Right: Eliminating FEMA, The U.S. As a Common Currency Area, The Professional Bureaucracy, and The Separation of Powers 

By Benjamin Zycher
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June 26, 2025
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Dollar Movements and Dollar Dominance in the Aftermath of Liberation Day

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June 26, 2025

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June 25, 2025
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By Brent Orrell
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June 24, 2025

Housing Finance Watch (Weeks 24 & 25, 2025)

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June 24, 2025

China’s Continental Conundrum: Nuclear Geopolitics and American Strategy in the Western Pacific

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June 27, 2025

A Great Nation Or What? Poll Responses Over Time

Forbes
Differences about presidents, policies, and priorities are real, but most Americans still believe the US is a force for good, a great country with problems and potential. 
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June 27, 2025
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The Hidden Cost of Intelligence Leaks

By Klon Kitchen
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June 27, 2025
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National Security vs. Economic Gain: A Debate on US-China Export Policy

Aaron Ginn, CEO of technology exporter Hydra Host; David Feith, former State Department and White House official; Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology; and Derek Scissors of AEI will debate the merits of tight versus loose export controls as applied to China and generally.
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June 17, 2025

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June 25, 2025

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June 11, 2025

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