Pratik Chougule, USA TODAY

Pratik Chougule

USA TODAY

Washington, DC, United States

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  • AmericanConservative
  • National Interest

Past articles by Pratik:

How Republicans can avoid Trump impeachment (Spoiler: They're doing it all wrong)

Attacking one witness after another won't work. Better to commit to fact-finding wherever it leads, and pressure Trump to skip the 2020 race. → Read More

Will American Science Stay On Top?

Scientific elites provoke America's egalitarian anxieties. → Read More

How Today’s Rich Families Are Different

A penchant for mobility is the key to building and maintaining intergenerational wealth. → Read More

Is American Childhood Creating an Authoritarian Society?

Overprotective parenting is a threat to democracy. → Read More

Is American Childhood Creating an Authoritarian Society?

Overprotective parenting is a threat to democracy. → Read More

Will High Taxes Force the Rich to Leave America?

The wealthy are moving money to tax havens outside U.S. borders. → Read More

How America Turned Against Smart Kids

Parents of gifted children face egalitarian dogmas and an anti-intellectual culture. → Read More

Sperm Killers and Rising Male Infertility

The sperm density of American males may be declining at a rate of 1.5 percent per year. Yet even amid an historic expansion of government’s role in health care, male infertility has merited little discussion in mainstream discourse. Federal and state governments are conspicuously absent in identifying the drivers of male infertility. Nor are they facilitating access to many of the most promising… → Read More

Why Silicon Valley Really Wants More Diversity

Political correctness seems like a small price to pay for Washington’s largess → Read More

Why the Kennedy-De Niro Vaccine Challenge Matters

A presidential commission led by Robert Kennedy Jr. could raise uncomfortable questions about the incentives driving vaccination recommendations. → Read More

From Neocon to Realist

Why I became a lapsed neoconservative and joined The American Conservative → Read More

Why Republicans Resist Small Government

When the case for limited government appears so obvious, why are small-government Republicans on the defensive? → Read More

Course Correction

America needs a foreign policy that abandons triumphalist clichés, flawed assumptions and predetermined conclusions in favor of facts and serious analysis. → Read More

Barack Obama: The Great Divider

Even if Obama cannot solve America’s race problem, the power of the presidency ensures that he can make it worse. So far, he has. → Read More

What Hillary Clinton Doesn't Get about Donald Trump Supporters

And why it matters. → Read More