America's Future Foundation

If you are exploring careers in public policy, you should consider the policy-shaping role of think tanks. Think tank professionals can exert influence on public policy that is both enormous and indirect. To understand why, you must know how think tanks work. This is the third part in a series. Read the first here and [...]

If you are exploring careers in public policy, you should consider the policy-shaping role of think tanks. Think tank professionals can exert influence on public policy that is both enormous and indirect. To understand why, you must know how think tanks work. This is the second part in a series. Read the first here. The [...]

If you are exploring careers in public policy, you should consider the policy-shaping role of think tanks. The enactment of a law by a legislative body is but the final step in a long march that typically starts outside the halls of government and the minds of policymakers. Although it is seldom obvious to casual [...]

In the conservative movement one of the rarest titles you will see will be a full time IT staff member. The company has to be large, resources have to be available, and an IT employee must be found who is both right leaning and willing to work for a non-profit salary. I have heard it [...]

From an early age, well-meaning adults asked you the dreaded question that some people still cannot answer today, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I can remember wanting to become an adventure writer who would tour the world writing about what I saw.  In college, the guidance counselors did not necessarily [...]

Are you interested in getting an advanced degree in economics in order to further your career in public policy? The Mercatus MA Fellowship might be the right program for you. The Mercatus Center MA Fellowship is a competitive, full-time fellowship program for students in George Mason University’s MA economics program. The program is targeted toward [...]

Getting started in your job search can be a daunting process, especially if you are interested in breaking into a new market or industry that is relatively new to you. At Center for Shared Services, we have the opportunity to connect people to jobs at a number of free market non-profit organizations; however, there are [...]

Robert Novak, a lion of American journalism, proposed the Journalism Fellowship Program in 1994 to restore balance to the media. In recent decades there has been a shift away from objective journalism towards advocacy of government intrusion and opposition to free market solutions to the nation’s problems. Since inception, the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program [...]

One of the most important things you can do in narrowing down your job search starts with a series of questions that only you can answer. The first step is defining what success practically looks like so that you move closer to achieving the goals you established. There are very few people in the world [...]

We’ve all been there. You find a job description that sounds incredibly exciting, but you wait days to submit a job application in order to put the finishing touches on your resume, agonizing over the language. While candidates spend hours pouring over each and every line and tweaking each and every word, it’s not uncommon [...]