The Theodore Roosevelt Institute (TRI) facilitates educated discussion through apolitical and independent analysis of economic markets, civic structures, and enterprise organizations. TRI draws from academic resources across multiple disciplines to provide comprehensive research into the challenges that confront private and public decision-makers and the impact action (or inaction) will have on interests and communities.

TRI delivers a set of probable hypothesis, synthesizing the complex variables typically confronting private and public decision-makers into a coherent road map. TRI provides statistical analysis and explains the functional meaning of those numbers. This method produces the objective background needed to tackle challenges as they actually arise beyond the chalkboard.


Increasingly, policy discourse unravels into inefficient and irrelevant ideological warfare. TRI’s core goal is to identify realistic long-term solutions for evolving markets and the players that drive them. Focused analysis at TRI avoids the constant recycling of opinions masked as new information.


In a complex society moving helter-skelter through the maze of commerce and community, information is often over-simplified or obfuscated beyond the margins of practicality. This produces a brand of confrontation that is beyond the boundaries of reason. Rather than sorting through the chaos of competing desires to find a pragmatic solution, information is distorted to fit a pre-determined design: competing expert testimony with no sensible nexus. Decision-makers are left to choose between sanguine scholars


on opposite ends of a misleading continuum. TRI provides a sobering alternative.

“Quack remedies of the universal cure-all type are generally as noxious to the body politic as to the body corporal.” – Theodore Roosevelt, January 1897

TRI’s mission is to add substance to public discourse without muddying the debate. TRI is committed to shining the light on facts by tempering volumes of dissonant information with veracity, clarity, and pragmatic choices. An objective evaluation of reality and a healthy respect for common sense allows decision-makers to avoid dogmatic interpretations and focus on the meticulous business of getting things done. By taking this approach, the Theodore Roosevelt Institute helps clients and communities realize a "square deal.”