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 ...

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 ...

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

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With a new introduction that addresses the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, Men Without Work, casts a spotlight on the collapse of work for ...

Requirements intended to promote competition in contracting have made the performance of government worse, not better. Using federal procurement of computer systems as his model, the author shows 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 ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army [Artesh-e Jomhouri-ye Eslami-ye Iran] and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e ...

Washington is facing a multitude of global threats, so it is understandable that officials would second-guess the cost of helping Kyiv. But given the stakes, Americans must have clarity on the ...

President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...