Source: The New Republic
by Matt Ford

“The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.” (01/15/26)

https://archive.is/4xfvE

Source: The Dispatch
by Katharine B Stevens & Jenet Erickson

“‘[F]ree’ child care is one of the rare proposals to attract support across the political spectrum — from progressives concerned about affordability and gender equity to conservatives hoping to boost family formation and the labor force. It looks like a simple, popular solution to several hard problems at once. But political appeal is not the same as sound policy for young children. This sweeping plan to shift the care of America’s young children from their families to paid providers is wrong for children, not what most parents want, and undervalues the family’s irreplaceable role in early development.” (01/15/26)

https://archive.is/jGN9y

Source: hypertext
by Brink Lindsey

“OK, so abundance has legs — but what kind of creature are they attached to? And where are those legs capable of taking us? What are the appropriate contours of the concept — we want an abundance of what, exactly? And what’s the social vision behind this desire for more — we want abundance for what?” (01/15/26)

https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-of-what-abundance-for-what