Building the New American Economy

Editor’s Note

Jonathan Tepperman

Populism won’t help U.S. workers. Here’s what will

Michael R. Strain

Protection, nationalism, and government intrusion won’t fix the U.S. economy. Doing that will take removing the barriers to upward mobility.

How AI could supercharge America

Neil Chilson

The United States already leads the world in high-tech development. But policy, not technology, now stands in our way.

Building a more inclusive economy

Melissa S. Kearney

America’s market-based system already delivers enormous goods. By strengthening families and skills and fighting childhood poverty, we can ensure that even more of us enjoy its benefits.

The right way to fight economic inequality

Benn Steil

Most Americans want good jobs, not handouts. Delivering them means boosting productivity – by making it easier for Americans to move, get, and switch jobs.

Preparing young Americans for our high-tech future

Robin Berkley, Alexis Yelvington

Thriving in a world of AI will take strong math and reading skills. But that’s just where the U.S. educational system is losing ground.

The Do’s and Don’ts of industrial policy

J.H. Cullum Clark

Washington’s intervention in the semiconductor industry shows that government involvement can sometimes help certain sectors grow – but at a much higher cost than most people realize.

How Beijing games the global economy

Igor Khrestin

Admitting China into the World Trade Organization was supposed to lead it to liberalize. In fact, the opposite has happened.

When help holds families back

Angela Rachidi

Despite decades of growth, many Americans still feel left behind. To change that, we must fix our social safety net so it promotes advancement instead of trapping families in hardship.

In defense of billionaires

James Pethokoukis

Attacking the uberwealthy is cheap and easy. But many billionaires enrich the whole economy – and the wrong restrictions could make all of us poorer.