The Manhattan Institute works to keep America and its great cities prosperous, safe, and free.
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Our Policy Areas
Cities
We work to improve the quality of life in America's great cities by fostering competition, entrepreneurship, and fiscal responsibility at the state and local level.
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Culture
We seek to overcome America's cultural divides by offering constructive alternatives to identity politics.
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Economics
We promote prosperity and upward mobility through the advancement of economic freedom, fiscal responsibility, and entrepreneurial innovation.
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Education
We develop policies that increase educational freedom and encourage the creation and expansion of high-performing schools.
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Energy
We champion policies that can enrich American society by making energy more abundant, affordable, reliable, and secure.
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Governance
We defend equality before the law and help improve the quality of governance by promoting transparency, accountability, and evidence-based reforms.
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Health
We develop policy solutions that empower patients and consumers by encouraging competition, transparency, accountability, and innovation.
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Public Safety
We advance creative, evidence-based policy ideas for better policing, public safety, and criminal justice.
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We are always looking for entrepreneurial, self-driven, resourceful, and detail-oriented employees to help put MI's work in the hands of key policymakers and others.
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Adam Smith Society
SmithSoc is a community of business students and professionals who join together to discuss and debate the contributions of the free market toward advancing human flourishing and opportunity for all.
Metropolitan Majority
Speaking up for the multiethnic mainstream in America’s metros.
New York City: Renewed
Gotham will bounce back—and the Manhattan Institute is here to help spark its renaissance.
Proxy Monitor
Shedding light on the influence of shareholder proposals on corporations.
Trial Lawyers, Inc.
Highlighting the ramifications of litigation practices and fostering a more transparent and effective legal system.
Logos Initiative
The Logos Initiative exists to expose corruption within America’s institutions and mobilize public opinion to achieve concrete cultural and policy reforms needed to restore institutional integrity.