Paul·Oct 21The family policy right's fiscal blind spot is the debt itselfInterest on the national debt passed $1.1 trillion in 2024, and the same fiscal conservatives who want to rebuild the two-parent home keep…
Paul·Oct 2The Pro-Family right has a fertility problem it won't admitConservative family policy keeps promising a baby boom. The countries that tried it are already showing what happens next.
Paul·Sep 25The Pro-Family right wants to subsidize marriage. the numbers say it won't work.Conservative proposals to redirect welfare toward married families run into a hard fact: the fertility decline is driven by secular trends…
Paul·Sep 8The Pro-Family right confronts the fertility data it cannot escapeA new conservative policy push targets marriage penalties and online dating, but the United States' total fertility rate has fallen to…
Paul·Sep 6The Stay-at-Home parent subsidy becomes conservatism's boldest gambleA coalition of social conservatives and economic nationalists is pushing to redirect billions in child-care funding toward married couples…
Paul·Aug 26The new Pro-Family economics rejects both left and right orthodoxiesA coalition of social conservatives is pushing child subsidies, marriage tax relief, and family-based investment accounts — policies that…
Paul·Aug 4The family as private welfare state has reached its limitsA new conservative think tank proposal would eliminate marriage penalties and create $2,500 newborn investment accounts, but the deeper…
Paul·Jul 21The new pro-family agenda tests conservative economic orthodoxyA coalition of think tanks proposes $2,500 birth accounts and universal child allowances, daring Republicans to embrace redistribution.
Paul·Jul 13The family policy trap conservatives cannot ignoreA new conservative think tank proposal to end marriage penalties and seed newborn investment accounts faces a harder truth: the economic…
Paul·Jul 1The family policy paradox that haunts american conservatismA new think-tank proposal would spend $2,500 per newborn and end marriage penalties — but can cultural conservatism survive on fiscal…
