Commentary - America's Future

By Lyndsey Fifield • May 21,2019 Career Advice

5 Mistakes to Avoid in Your New Role

Ah, Spring. While nature is bursting with new life before our eyes, this is also a time of major transformation in many young Americans’ lives. If you’re one of the...

By Josh Evans • May 15,2019 AF Community

Weekly Writers Round-Up: The Millennial Vote, Lessons from Venezuela, and Politically-Motivated Spying

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. For more information...

By Meg Tuszynski • May 14,2019 Markets & Free Enterprise

How Economically Free is Your Metro Area?

At the end of January, the Reason Foundation released the U.S. Metropolitan Area Economic Freedom Index (MEFI), authored by Dean Stansel of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom...

By Peter Lipsett • May 13,2019 Leadership

Bust the Liberal Narrative of Selfishness By Being a Giver

The libertarian ideal has a branding problem of its own making. We’ve allowed an important, critical component of our philosophy to be taken away from us. What is it? That...

By Kristine Goffos • May 12,2019 AF Community

How These Millennial Moms are Rocking Work and Motherhood

Gone are the days when becoming a mom means having to leave your job to stay home with the kiddos. In 2015, seven in ten moms with children younger than...

By Cindy Cerquitella • May 10,2019 AF Community

Learn it Live it, Love it: The AF Gala & Buckley Awards Edition

Learn it: Next week we’ll be announcing the 2019 Recipients of the Buckley Awards. This year is the ten year anniversary of this prize, which honors young leaders under 40...