Sutherland Institute
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Romney: A matter of adjusting incentives
Almost everything the government does will create incentives or disincentives. Wise policymaking includes calculating those effects.
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Owens: The most important product in our country is our kids
The ability to reason – even temporarily – at arm’s length from your emotions is an important element of citizenship.
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Owens: How historical context should inform education
A knowledge of historical context helps us understand individuals, but it also can (and should) influence policy discussions.
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Lee: Why the Supreme Court must not respond to political pressure
The role of the justices is to ensure that the Constitution and laws are applied to specific disputes. In a sense, they are bound by the written laws.
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Lee: We benefit from having social capital
The social capital created by participating in civic institutions generates tremendous benefit not only for society as a whole – by helping to heal our partisan and political divisions – but for individuals as well.
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Lee: ‘How exactly did we get here?’
Gaining a better understanding of an issue by learning its context is crucial to crafting the principled public policies that generate sound, sustainable solutions
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Moore: Confronting the thing that will cripple us as a nation
A true political leader will persuade colleagues of both the need for federal spending on urgent priorities and the importance of restraining deficits to keep the national debt at a manageable level.
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Moore: The work of Congress is based on interpersonal relationships
Cross-partisan friendships can be as powerful and impactful for voters and citizens as they are for elected officials and lawmakers.
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Moore: Find out who’s actually consequential in Congress
Rep. Blake Moore noted that the members of Congress who have the most impact and influence on the country are not the members who have “millions and millions of Twitter followers.”
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Curtis: Elected officials are a reflection of us
Rep. Curtis’s comments on the incivility and divisiveness in our politics highlighted a basic civic fact of living in democratic republic.