On April 23, AEI hosted a collaborative event with the Chautauqua Institution and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia to discuss American civic culture as it affects our ...

For decades, the position of university trustee was largely a public honorific. This is changing. As Republican governors recognize that their public colleges are financially mismanaged ...

Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire ...

The United States leads the world in artificial intelligence, but it’s not guaranteed to stay there. The bottleneck isn’t talent, ideas, or capital—it’s electricity. Via Adobe Stock.

President Trump has made it clear that he intends to take control of the independent agencies that regulate large portions of the US economy. There are about 19 of these agencies, and include the ...

Over at The Dispatch, AEI Senior Fellow Jonah Goldberg recently praised Frédéric Bastiat’s classic essay, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen.” Goldberg cited the piece to ...

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 ...

When policy analysts argue that Ukraine should stop fighting because it cannot realistically hope to repel Russia and reclaim its occupied territories, they often implicitly or explicitly ...

Teach For America is one of the most influential educational organizations of the past few decades. Starting 35 years ago as an undergraduate thesis, TFA’s aim was to bring high-performing ...

The 2024 American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, went above and beyond providing compensation for losses of equipment, structures, and roads by including $10 billion for farmers whose ...

It is Earth Day 2025, the central religious holiday of the environmental left, and the theme this year is “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.” That “TM” trademark symbol is both a reality and a joke.

AEI Senior Fellow James C. Capretta took part in the Third Annual Health Solutions Summit hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget to discuss the Medicare program and its ...