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Religious Contributions to Progress in Human Rights: Social Benefits of Religion, Volume 2
Religious teachings motivate believers, and those motivations are often channeled into socially beneficial directions. It demonstrates that securing greater freedom for some need not diminish it for others. The efforts of people of faith to secure their constitutionally protected rights…
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Religious Contributions to Serving the Vulnerable: Social Benefits of Religion, Volume 1
Policymakers can benefit from understanding the unique social benefits of religious belief and practice. The valuable social and economic contributions of religion-based organizations can easily be undermined by regulatory burdens.
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The Utah Family Miracle: Five Policy Ideas to Keep Utah Families Strong and Stable
What could be called the “Utah Family Miracle” matters because social science tells us that one of the strongest predictors of state economic success is strong families.
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Protecting Religious Freedom in the 21st Century
With increasing polarization around nearly every issue, perhaps it is not surprising that religious freedom, once a unifying aspiration for the nation, has become contested.
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The Benefits and Drawbacks of Ranked-Choice Voting in Utah
The potential benefits of ranked-choice voting (RCV) suggest there is merit in continuing the Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project. However, the potential drawbacks of RCV should not be ignored: They reinforce the importance of a thoughtful, deliberate approach to…
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Examining the Evidence on Vote by Mail
The evidence of history, politics, and scholarly research about vote by mail means we are not limited by anecdotes and hypotheticals.
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Religious Freedom 101: A brief history of America’s first freedom
Religious freedom has always been an essential part of the American experiment. Original colonists in the 1600s fled religious oppression and founded four of the first American colonies. Later, the new United States enshrined religious freedom in the First Amendment.
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Prescription Drugs 101: Understanding the price you pay at the pharmacy
The pandemic has shown how valuable an effective and free market for prescription drugs is to Americans’ well-being and health – the market produced multiple safe and effective COVID vaccines in record time.
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Civics Education in America: A brief history
Before we can know which direction a civics education renewal should take, we must understand how civics education got to its current state. That means understanding how civics education has evolved through the history of the United States.
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Religious Liberty: Striving for Inclusion
The theme of this publication is inclusive religious liberty. As we have talked about this, we have heard two objections. First, that religious liberty cannot be inclusive because it allows religious institutions and people of faith to make distinctions that…