President Trump's long-standing chase for deals with China has pushed the US to avoid hard choices, only to get burned later.

Event Summary On February 2, AEI convened a conference with the Ukrainian Institute of the Future on the future of Ukraine, opportunities for a peaceful end to the conflict with Russia, and the ...

The new limits on graduate student borrowing enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) mark a decisive shift away from the era of effectively unlimited federal lending. To understand why, it ...

Now we live in a world of uncertainty where the economic facts can change at a moment’s notice. That world would be best served by a Fed that is prepared to make early monetary policy changes when the ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul made news recently with an interview that was at once revealing and pathetic. The revealing part was her plea for rich former New Yorkers to return so they can be taxed ...

As Operation Epic Fury finishes its sixth week and enters a two-week cease fire period, we estimate an incremental cost to date of between $25 and $35 billion.

We say that civic life is fraying. We point to distrust, fragmentation, and the steady decline of shared experience in American culture. Much of that is true. But every so often, something cuts ...

This week, I am returning to the University of Colorado Boulder campus for the first time since I retired from the university in 2024. I was invited to participate in the university’s Conference on ...

Yesterday the Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD Act by a vote of 89–10. Among its many provisions is one especially harmful measure to low-income families. Nearly 50% of full-time low-income workers ...

About fifteen years ago, I participated in some war games about the possibility of an attack on Iran, not unlike what now unfolds. I was on the Iran team. Our goal was to stymie the U.S. and Israeli ...

U.S. envoys and Iranian diplomats had met several times in Muscat, Oman, and Geneva, Switzerland to try to hash out a deal over Iran’s nuclear program. Some Iranian officials even claimed there had ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...