Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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We wish you a merry Christmas, and a vaccinated new year
Read More: We wish you a merry Christmas, and a vaccinated new yearChristmastime brings feelings of hope and a desire to help those in need – sentiments that are greatly needed in 2020. Developments in the fight against COVID-19 offer additional reason…
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SCOTUS ruling shows how religious freedom offers stability in a chaotic time
Read More: SCOTUS ruling shows how religious freedom offers stability in a chaotic time“It is time—past time—to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores…
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Families, school choice can help put Founders’ vision back into education
Read More: Families, school choice can help put Founders’ vision back into educationFamilies are more involved in education than in recent years. And according to one scholar, that’s a good thing because families are in the best position to direct education.
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PBMs and your prescription drug bill
Read More: PBMs and your prescription drug billThe key to lowering drug costs is increasing competition and not imposing laws or regulations that can have unintended consequences, including higher costs to patients.
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Religious groups called the ‘brightest spot’ in foster care system
Read More: Religious groups called the ‘brightest spot’ in foster care system“Religious organizations are really the brightest spot in what is an otherwise dismal [foster care] system,” says Naomi Schaefer Riley, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Why I am grateful for history education: context, identity and liberty
Read More: Why I am grateful for history education: context, identity and libertyCivics education, with its emphasis on mechanisms and procedures, means little if people do not understand how its creators came to the conclusions that a government needed checks and balance,…
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Be thankful for religious freedom (and the not-so-uniform Pilgrims)
Read More: Be thankful for religious freedom (and the not-so-uniform Pilgrims)Thanksgiving is an appropriate occasion to talk about religious freedom. The Pilgrims’ baby steps toward religious toleration have had surprising but welcome ramifications through the last four centuries.
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Alito: Widespread support for religious freedom is shrinking
Read More: Alito: Widespread support for religious freedom is shrinkingIs religious freedom “fast becoming a disfavored right”? That is the worry expressed by Justice Samuel Alito in a recent speech to a virtual convention of the Federalist Society.
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Education trends: To 2021 and beyond
Read More: Education trends: To 2021 and beyondYear 2020 disrupted many things, including education. What is the future of education in 2021 and beyond? Ian Rowe, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke about some…
