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September 04, 2025

Risk Sharing: The Student Loan Reform Whose Time Has Come?

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Risk-sharing policies require colleges to bear some of the financial risk that student loans will not be repaid. Though untried in the US, risk sharing has a successful track record in Brazil and was featured in an early version of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Free Buses Are a Recipe for Disaster

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September 03, 2025
What the Hell Is Going On?

#WTH: When It’s About Israel, The Rules Don’t Apply

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September 04, 2025
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A Remarkable New History of the Western Tradition

By Joshua T. Katz
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September 05, 2025
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Discussing the August jobs report and economic indicators: Strain on CBS Evening News Plus with John Dickerson

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How Predictive Is VantageScore 4.0 Compared to Classic FICO?

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September 05, 2025
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What Can Schools Really Do About Mass Shootings?

By Daniel Buck
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September 05, 2025
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Student Loan Repayment Improves Slightly, but Challenges Remain

By Preston Cooper

Foreign and Defense Policy

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September 05, 2025
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The Adaptability Dividend: Survival in the Age of Glass-Cannon Technology

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September 05, 2025
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Back to School with Hamas

By Colin Dueck

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September 05, 2025
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Discussing RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol: Gottlieb on CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’

By Scott Gottlieb
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September 05, 2025
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Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan: Drawn to Analytics, Grounded Expectations for AI

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September 05, 2025
Washington Examiner

Trump’s Governance by Executive Order Will Be Continued by Future Presidents

By Jay Cost
Op-Ed
September 05, 2025
The Liberal Patriot

Redistricting Isn’t the Democrats’ Problem

By Ruy Teixeira

Opportunity and Social Mobility

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September 04, 2025
New York Post

‘Safe’ Drug Dens Got $2M in Biden’s Budget — Now Make Them Help NYC’s Addicts

By Howard Husock
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September 03, 2025
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Choose or Lose: Will Democratic Governors Take Free Funding for School Choice?

By Ian Rowe | Jorge Elorza

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September 05, 2025
Washington Examiner

Not All Conservatives Agree with Trump on Flag Burning Order

By Christopher J. Scalia
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September 05, 2025
AEIdeas

When Sports Teach More Than Skills

By Samuel J. Abrams

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September 05, 2025

Critiques of Roger Pielke Jr. and Shuting Pomerleau on the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

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September 05, 2025
AEIdeas

Google Avoids Breakup but Faces New Data Sharing Requirements

By Will Rinehart

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Critiques of Roger Pielke Jr. and Shuting Pomerleau on the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

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September 05, 2025
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The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Update

By Pia M. Orrenius | Alan D. Viard | Madeline Zavodny
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September 04, 2025

Militant Antitrust Enforcement Has Not Made College More Affordable. Let’s Try Something Else.

By Robert Shireman
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September 04, 2025
American Enterprise Institute

Reimagining Higher Education Accountability: It’s Time for States to Lead

By Steve C. Taylor
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September 04, 2025
American Enterprise Institute

Risk Sharing: The Student Loan Reform Whose Time Has Come?

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Accountability for Value: Smarter Risk and Better Results in Higher Education

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Commonsense Bipartisan Accreditation Reform: Improving Quality and Accountability in Higher Education

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How Technology Can Transform the Higher Education Accreditation Process and Drive Continuous Improvement at Colleges and Universities

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September 04, 2025

Free Buses Are a Recipe for Disaster

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Zohran Mamdani is promising to eliminate bus fares. Five years ago, Kansas City did just that. You’ll never guess what happened next.
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Why Gavin Newsom’s Trump Act Is Working

By Matthew Continetti
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August 27, 2025
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The Bolton Raid Is an Attack on Classification

By Michael Rubin
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August 28, 2025
The Hill

We Are Losing the Basis of Our Civic Discourse

By Samuel J. Abrams

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In his timely new book—The Projects: A New History of Public Housing—AEI’s Howard Husock traces the rise and fall of America’s public housing system, from its idealistic beginnings to its unintended consequences for low-income communities. Drawing on history, resident voices, and contemporary policy debates, Mr. Husock argues for a new foundation for housing reform and […]
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