A young girl named Alexis started using social media when she was 11 and was barraged with videos about body image, eating disorders, and cutting. She developed a social media addiction, anorexia, harmed herself, and contemplated suicide. Samantha was sucked into an algorithmically fueled rabbit hole about rare diseases which she increasingly became convinced she...
With inflation breaking records, gas prices pushing $10 per gallon and the border exploding with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, President Joe Biden decided to issue an executive order to “enhance protections for transgender children and take steps to ban conversion therapy as efforts continue in Texas and other states to restrict gender-affirming medical...
With the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade on the horizon, the nation’s eyes are turned to the Supreme Court. But there are more decisions likely coming out this week that could transform federal powers. One is West Virginia v. EPA, which could end Obama’s Clean Power Plan for good and limit the ability of...
American households are under pressure like never before. Thanks to spendthrift politicians in Washington D.C. and unelected central bankers prone to mistakes, the average American is paying more for food, gas, rent, and clothing. In fact, it’s estimated that “the average US household is now paying $450 more per month for the same goods as...
Prescription drugs are the difference between life and death for millions of Americans each day, yet their costs are far too often unaffordable. Heavily influencing these prices are Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). These are the third-party middlemen who negotiate prescription drug rates with pharmaceutical manufacturers on behalf of insurance companies. Earlier this month, the Federal...
Special Independence Day Edition! What to Know: On Monday, we celebrate the 246th anniversary of our nation’s founding. The TPPF Take: Our nation is truly the greatest and most free nation in history. “It comes back to rights,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “The founders believed in rights that didn’t require the labor or taxes of others...
Save Our Children What to Know: Children who spend more time consuming social media are at higher risk for mental health issues such as depression. The TPPF Take: It’s time to save our kids from social media—by banning social media accounts for minors. “There are countless tragic stories about the destructive harms of social media,” says...
A Hardened Target What to Know: A school district near Uvalde has armed its teachers for years—and the community feels more secure. Parents say they’re grateful. The TPPF Take: Securing, or “hardening” school campuses, must be part of the response to tragedies such as Uvalde. “Although President Biden doesn’t believe in hardening schools, most people know...
Andrew Gillen, Ph.D. helps us break down “gainful employment” regulations which help students and families decide which college programs offer the best opportunities for graduates to find work. With 43 million Americans owing $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, reforming these regulations to improve transparency and accountability is critical. For more higher education policy resources, click...
The border crisis is a humanitarian crisis. Violence in countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras has created a mass migration, creating more demand for human traffickers whose empty promises and exorbitant fees drive and direct the flow of migrants to the border. Human trafficking has become a multi-billion dollar business, trapping thousands into...
Val Verde County is like a lot of South Texas counties: sparsely populated, rugged, dry, and vast. It’s also ground zero for the border crisis. What we learned on a recent trip — talking with the sheriff, talking with Border Patrol officers and veterans, and most of all talking to the men and women who...
Amid the first conventional war in Europe since 1945 and China’s massive military buildup — including nuclear weapons — the U.S. military is experiencing a dangerous drop in its warfighting capability. The U.S. Army, the largest service, has only reached 40 percent of its recruiting goal with just more than three months remaining in the fiscal year....
Expecting publicly traded companies to do more than simply return shareholder value — their fiduciary responsibility — is a fairly new development in Western capitalism. The idea that corporate leadership and shareholders should explicitly care about environmental, social, and corporate governance (known as ESG) issues beyond how they might affect the bottom line has been...
While in Tokyo, a reporter asked President Joe Biden if the U.S. would defend Taiwan. The president’s response, “Yes.” When pressed, Biden reiterated, “That’s the commitment we made.” Biden elaborated that, “The idea that (Taiwan) can be taken by force, just taken by force, it’s just not appropriate. It would dislocate the entire region and...
California policymakers wholeheartedly demonstrated they remain wedded to their homelessness narrative—that the sole answer to homelessness is life-long, subsidized housing—despite the fact that this one-size-fits-all policy, called “Housing First,” has epically failed the Golden State and the nation. Pre-COVID-19 data shows California’s experiment with Housing First resulted in a 47.1 percent rise in unsheltered homelessness. But...