American Enterprise Institute
President of the American Enterprise Institute and author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism and The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America; former professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University
Politics, Prosperity and Charitable Giving Liberals favor income redistribution and the welfare state, so they must give more willingly to charity. That's what a professor at Syracuse University thought he would demonstrate when he began researching the subject. When his early findings proved otherwise, he thought he must be mistaken.
Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
