There is widespread, bipartisan concern that American universities are not adequately preparing students for citizenship. The most ambitious efforts to attend to this problem to date have been ...

Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s metaphor of the states as “laboratories” for policy experiments is perhaps the most familiar and clichéd image of federalism. Contrary to common belief, however ...

My first night as a dad is seared in my memory. I remember collapsing into a blue maternity room recliner and bawling my eyes out, overwhelmed by the dizzying mix of ...

Last November, President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper entitled “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global ...

My fellow tech policy enthusiasts, our long national nightmare is over. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit brought an end to the decade-long fight over net neutrality by ...

Todd Harrison’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute, 2025), edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download ...

Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund is projected to be exhausted in 2033. Without intervening legislative action, current law dictates that benefits at that time would ...

The Biden administration has set ambitious goals to decrease US carbon emissions. Starting in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act granted clean energy tax credits to businesses in hopes of ...

This week’s disappointing Chinese GDP (gross domestic product) numbers showed that Chinese economic growth has slowed to 4.75 percent from the very rapid annual economic growth rate of seven to ...

The future of the clean energy transition is cloudy. It’s well-known that there are disagreements—wide disagreements—between Republicans and Democrats about our energy future. But less well ...

Key Points Despite numerous claims to the contrary, the pay of American workers has tracked productivity trends—for at least 95 years. The pay of the median worker, however, after rising with ...

“Thousands of protesters rushed to the … Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors.” That is how one newspaper described the ...