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August 15, 2025
Monica Potts
Cash Payments Were Never Meant to Be a Cure-All for Poor Americans
A recent study highlighted by
The New York Times
casts doubt on this progressive approach to helping struggling families. But the study is hardly definitive—and we’re missing the bigger picture.
April 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s New MAGA Slogan: Kids Will Get Two Dolls and Not 30
Donald Trump gave an outrageous lecture to Americans to just buy fewer toys for their kids as his tariffs take effect.
April 1, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Nine House Republicans Torpedo Mike Johnson’s Plans
Nine Republicans voted against their House speaker on proxy voting for new parents—causing him to abandon all plans for the rest of the week.
August 16, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
The Most Striking Proposals in Harris’s Economic Plan
Kamala Harris has released her economic agenda—and it would change everything.
February 16, 2022
Grace Segers
Can Democrats Convince Struggling Parents That the Party Hasn’t Abandoned Them?
Families with school-age kids have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Will they make themselves heard at the ballot box?
August 30, 2019
Elliot Haspel
Millennial Parents Are Failing Their Children
Parents of young kids need to get serious about climate change. And that starts by showing up to vote.
October 14, 2014
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e e cummings Tries to Answer the Question "Who Am I?" in This Delightful Lecture
August 28, 2014
Alec MacGillis
In America Today, a 9-Year-Old Girl Can't Play Alone in a Park But She Can Play With an Uzi
January 7, 2014
Marc Tracy
Don't Leave Future Fathers Out of the Daddy Wars
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