Commentary - America's Future

By Amanda Kieffer • Mar 16,2021 Professional Development

Professional Development Plan: A Gift To Yourself

As a young professional, the best gift you can give yourself is a professional development plan (PDP). It doesn’t matter where you are in your career path right now. Whether...

By Meg Tuszynski • Mar 15,2021 Policy

Tradeoffs are Everywhere: Covid-Edition

One of the key principles of economics is that we live in a world of scarcity, so we’re constantly forced to make tradeoffs. We’re constantly forced to evaluate the costs...

By Krista Mitchell • Mar 12,2021 Policy

5 Ways the Internet Empowers Women

In the past few years, there has been a dramatic shift from the “permissionless innovation“ era of technological advancement to demanding a heavily regulated, state-controlled tech sector. While there are many...

By Mathieu Vaillancout • Mar 11,2021 Policy

No Refugee Left Behind

Mainstream media regularly covers individuals seeking haven from Syria. But, we seem to forget that there is a humanitarian crisis much closer to home: Venezuela. Unprecedented amounts of people are...

By AF Editors • Mar 10,2021

Reads of the Week: Breaking up Big Tech, Fixing College Tuition, and Appalachian Poverty

Each week, we’ll be featuring opinion pieces from the alumni and current participants of AF’s Writing Fellows Program. A few highlights from the past week are below. Do you dream...

By Monica Moir • Mar 09,2021 Policy

The Flexibility of Education in a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in more ways than one – spanning from how we communicate with one another and how we work within our organizations, to how...