Days after taking office for a second time, President Trump issued an executive order for a homeland missile defense system, dubbed Iron Dome for America. Unlike Israel’s Iron Dome, which ...

The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan ...

The idea behind the nondelegation doctrine is sound: Congress should not delegate legislative power to executive branch agencies. But its implementation leaves much to be desired. Nearly every ...

The past week has seen the Trump Administration upending US support for two critical facets of the post-war international order: the rules-based arrangements for international trade and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration offers an opportunity for meaningful and overdue reform of higher education following a period of halted progress during the Biden administration. Colleges should be ...

Recently, Elon Musk has made claims while standing with President Trump in the Oval Office that his DOGE associates found that Social Security Administration (SSA) databases contain records of ...

President Donald Trump might not actually grab Greenland by force. Perhaps he won’t send the Marines into Panama to reclaim control of the canal, or deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to take ...

Why do so many of President Trump’s multitudinous executive orders fly in the face of extant legal principles? Are they the result of incompetence? Is the administration laying the groundwork ...

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 ...

Since our nation’s founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States. Most Catholic citizens ...