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Having an Impact

  • Clarence Thomas Quotes Jeff Anderson’s Constitutional Analysis

    Justice Clarence Thomas cites Jeff Anderson in a recent Supreme Court opinion (U.S. v. Hansen, Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion, p. 28).

  • Fox News Interview: Crime Is Up

    Fox News interviews Jeff Anderson about his Wall Street Journal on the urban crime spike. Watch here.

  • AMSI on The Andrew Klavan Show

    Jeff Anderson, president of AMSI, talks with Andrew Klavan about the GOP nomination process, abortion politics, masks, and the race for the White House. Watch here.

  • "The clearest and best analysis...."

    …on what’s really causing the border crisis, tweeted Mollie Hemingway about “Border Crisis by Design.”

Introducing Quick Hits!

These highly readable 4-pagers are chock full of data on topics that matter to Main Street Americans.

Immigration: A Sea Change Under Biden

Are Cops “Systemically Racist”—and Is America?

The National Debt

Quick Hits Library

Featured Articles

  • Personnel Is Policy

    The American Mind
    This time around, the Trump administration should fill political appointee positions and tackle the federal government’s maddening H.R. regime. Read more.

  • Fauci Was Just a Symptom

    TomKlingenstein.com
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s provocative book, The Real Anthony Fauci, highlights how most science funding in America now funnels through a small cabal of self-interested bureaucrats. Read more.

  • Trump Won on the Issues

    City Journal
    In an election in which Gen X fueled Donald Trump to victory, exit polling reveals interesting insights. Read more.

  • Contrary to Media Myth, U.S. Urban Crime Rates Are Up

    The Wall Street Journal
    The National Crime Victimization Survey now says that crime rates didn’t change to a statistically significant degree nationwide from 2022 to 2023, and it shows that the violent crime rate in urban areas rose a whopping 40% from 2019-2023. Read more.

  • Border Bait-and-Switch

    City Journal
    The administration’s CBP One app now lets illegal aliens schedule their arrival—and almost sure release—at a port of entry. Thus, encounters between the ports are down somewhat, while encounters at the ports are up 17-fold. Read more.

  • Woke Disney To Destroy Popular ‘Frontierland’ Attractions

    The Federalist
    Disney has announced plans to destroy iconic Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom. This decision represents an affront to America's history and spirit. Read more.

  • Covid Catastrophes

    Claremont Review of Books
    A trio of clueless “experts” in the White House led the response to Covid-19: we can never again let such a colossal public-policy disaster happen. Read more.

  • The Masking of America

    Claremont Review of Books
    ”Many Americans have been taught to believe that masks work—at least a little—and that wearing them comes at a minimal cost. Nearly the opposite is true.” Read more

Key Issues

  • American Way of Life

    American Way of Life

    Defend America’s history and heroes, principles and promise, and remarkable status as a nation conceived in liberty.

  • American Institutions

    Defend America’s governing institutions—as designed by our founders—in compelling and relevant terms.

  • Rule of Law

    Defend law and order in our cities and on our border.

  • Main Street Economics

    Focus on fixing what the federal government has broken, not on giving it more power and money.