Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To read more from this series, click here.

Dropping off a teenager at college for the first time is a momentous occasion in a parent’s life. Will they thrive? Will they keep up with the academic rigor, the new expectations, the navigation of social dynamics, a new pattern of life, and the transition to adulthood over the coming years?