Chipping Away at Globalization Is a Smart Move
American Compassâs Oren Cass argues that the CHIPS Act marks an inflection point for America turning away from globalization and revitalizing domestic industry.
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CHIPS Wonât Help China
American Compass executive director Oren Cass argues that demanding perfect legislation is a convenient excuse for voting no, and a standard by which everyone would always vote no.
American Compass on CHIPS Act Passage: An Inflection Point in U.S. Policy
PRESS RELEASEâAmerica is finally getting serious about returning critical industries to our shores.
Itâs Time to Protect Children from Big Tech
Big Techâs social media platforms are similarly exploiting children today. And just as policymakers needed to act to protect children then, they must do the same now.
Republicans Split on Major China Bill, as Legislation Barrels Toward Passage
As the Senate takes up consideration of the CHIPS Act, American Compassâs work is leading the industrial policy debate.
Pass the CHIPS, Please
Restrictions on investment in China are a good idea, to be sure. The taller and stronger the guardrails, the better. But holding incentives for domestic investment hostage to tougher restrictions on foreign investment may not be wise or necessary, for two reasons.
Recovering a Sense of Papoose
In this weekâs Compass Point, Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work, Erika Bachiochi throws a fascinating curveball into the modern debate over home economics. That debate, to oversimplify, pits the mid-20th-century model of breadwinner-plus-homemaker against the late-20th-century model of the dual-income household.
Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
The conflict between responsibilities at home and at work is largely the result of economic transitions to which we stillânearly a century after industrialization and 50 years into the modern feminist movementâhave not adequately responded.
Post-Roe, the GOP Is Stepping Up To Support American Families
American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses the promising shift on the right-of-center toward supporting generous pro-family benefits like Senator Romneyâs Family Security Act 2.0.
The Climate Crisis Is No Excuse for Backsliding on Democracy
For progressives, the US Supreme Courtâs EPA ruling should have been a teachable moment, argues American Compass executive director Oren Cass.
In Preparation for Power, Americaâs New Right Builds New Institutions
In a profile of the new institutions springing up to influence the new right’s policy agenda, American Compass is described as âamong the more sophisticated,â with proposals that have been âinfluential among lawmakers.â
Saving Kids from Big Tech with Chris Griswold
American Compass policy director Chris Griswold discusses the historical parallels between child labor in the 19th century and kidsâ use of social media today, and suggests steps that policymakers can take to protect them from its harms.
Capital Markets RâUs
Oren Cass joins David Bahnsen to discuss the state of American financial markets, private equity and venture capital, what is going wrong, and potential solutions.
College Is Not for All
American Compassâs Oren Cass and Wells King discuss the reality that most young Americans miss out on commencement.
Brave New Regulation
Silicon Valleyâs techno-optimists insist loudly on two contradictory points. On one hand, they celebrate the Internet and its associated innovations with phrases like âparadigm shiftâ and âcreative destruction,â and celebrate themselves as the visionaries leading humanity into (unironically) a Brave New World. On the other, they reject the need for new public regulation, insisting that the legal frameworks of past eras are perfectly adequate to the task. Both cannot be true.
We Peasants of the Metaverse
As we are belatedly coming to realize, online territory must be regulatedâby people, not merely by economic laws or algorithmsâbut we have no idea how or by whom.
Failure to Launch
In the popular imagination, young Americans leave home to attend college, where they earn degrees that launch them into careers. The actual experience is radically different.
Escaping the Bachelorâs Fad
For noncollege pathways to be viable, policymakers must reduce employersâ needless demand for college degrees.
Revitalizing the Federal Apprenticeship System
To capitalize on bipartisan support, federal apprenticeship programs must be rescued from sclerosis.
The Banality of Student Loans
With loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, with subsidies limited to a straightforward grant, and with providers responsible for financing the investments they promise to facilitate, the white-washed âivory towersâ would lose much of their magical allure.
