A Think Tank for Everyday Americans
Having an Impact
AMSI on the The Andrew Klavan Show
Jeff Anderson talks with Andrew Klavan about the GOP nomination process, abortion politics, masks, and the race for the White House. Listen here.
Clarence Thomas Quotes Jeff Anderson’s Constitutional Analysis
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cited Jeff Anderson in an opinion this summer (U.S. v. Hansen, Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion, p. 28).
Lead Role in Shaping the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership”
AMSI President Jeff Anderson wrote the introductions to all five sections of Mandate for Leadership 2025, the 887-page policy guide for the next conservative administration that was produced by Project 2025 and published by the Heritage Foundation.
Anderson also contributed to the section on the U.S. Department of Justice. In addition, AMSI serves on the 2025 Project’s Board of Advisors and on the subcommittee for preparing for America’s 250th anniversary.
Latest: In April, Jeff Anderson appeared on Japanese public television to discuss Project 2025 and its implications for the next conservative administration.
Introducing Quick Hits!
Check out our latest analytical product line—this highly readable 4-pager is chock full of data on topics that matter to Main Street Americans. You can find our latest issues below.
Immigration: A Sea Change Under Biden
Featured Articles
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Americans Are No Longer Safe in Their Cities—and Biden Can't Even Admit It
The Telegraph
President Biden acts as if crime hasn’t increased, but the best available federal statistics show a massive increase in violent crime in cities in recent years. 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. -
No Great Mystery
City Journal
Inflation has been higher during President Biden’s first three years in office than during the first three years of any other newly elected president in the past century except for Jimmy Carter. Yet the press is mystified as to why Americans aren’t enthusiastic about the economy. Read more -
Border Crisis by Design
City Journal
The cause of the border crisis is President Biden’s unprecedented refusal to enforce federal immigration law, which requires that all asylum-seekers be detained rather than released into the country. Read more. -
The War for the Military
American Mind
The U.S. Air Force Academy’s new DEI office openly proclaims that its mission is to “aid in the transformation” of cadets. Read more. -
Why America Needs a Main Street Initiative
American Greatness
“Main Street-oriented policymakers need compelling intellectual support from outside groups—just as establishment-oriented policymakers enjoy abundant support for their efforts.” Read more -
Biden, Claiming ‘Systemic Racism’ in Policing, Defies Science
Wall Street Journal
The best data suggests that America is not a land of "systemic racism," but a land of justice. 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
Press & Media
AMSI on the Kevin Roberts Show
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts invited the American Main Street Initiative's Jeff Anderson onto his podcast to discuss the issues that animate Main Street Americans, ideas for reining in the ever-expanding administrative state, and the future of America. Watch the show on YouTube or on Apple Podcasts.
American Main Street Initiative president Jeff Anderson talks with American Moment’s Saurabh Sharma about the national debt, Obamacare, Jeff’s experience working in the Trump administration, and why you should care that Disney closed the Magic Kingdom’s most popular ride.
The Wall Street Journal features Jeff Anderson’s mid-term election analysis in “Notable & Quotable.”
Ed Whelan at National Review, highlights “Learning from Lincoln on Abortion” as offering “valuable and encouraging political lessons for pro-lifers.”
The Wall Street Journal featured Jeff Anderson’s letter to the editor on Ben Sasse’s notion of “civic pluralism.”
“A new think tank unmasks the left.”
- Fred Barnes in the Washington Free Beacon on the American Main Street Initiative
Tucker Carlson Tonight
Jeffrey Anderson: Masked faces undermine human individuality
“What’s the harm [in wearing masks]?...Jeffrey Anderson, maybe more than anyone in recent months, has thought deeply about that question. He just wrote...‘The Masking of America,’ which we strongly recommend.”
Power Line blog cites “Jeffrey Anderson on the Midterms.”
George Will in The Washington Post:
“The American Main Street Initiative, a think tank, says the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations compiled more debt held by the public, adjusted for inflation, than did all previous presidents combined. And if the national debt rises for 60 years at the rate it has risen during the previous 30, it will then exceed $1.5 quadrillion. (A quadrillion is a thousand trillions.)’” Read more
The Wall Street Journal
features the article “Kids Full of Life, Adults Obsessed with Death” in “Notable & Quotable.”
Coverage of Anderson’s essay, “Do Masks Work?”
New York Post, “Power-seeking pols are trying to create a never-ending pandemic”
Washington Examiner, “Do masks actually work? The best studies suggest they don't”
Tennessee Star, “Science on Mask Usage Indicates Scant Benefit”
Key Issues
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American Way of Life
Defend America’s history and heroes, principles and promise, and remarkable status as a nation conceived in liberty.
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American Institutions
Defend America’s governing institutions—as designed by our founders—in compelling and relevant terms.
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Rule of Law
Defend law and order in our cities and on our border.
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Main Street Economics
Focus on fixing what the federal government has broken, not on giving it more power and money.
