Members of AEI’s National Council are business and community leaders from across the country and abroad who are committed to the values and success of the Institute. They are ambassadors for AEI and ...

When the stakes are high and time is short, those advocating interventionist economic policy have a stronger-than-usual case for urgent and direct action. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington ...

Over the past year, the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to remove progressive ideology from museum exhibits and the various supplementary materials it puts out (e.g., its press ...

• The share of appraisal waivers for both GSEs combined for March 2026 stood at 28%, up from last month and down 21 ppts. from the series’ peak in March 2021. • The recent rise in waiver usage is ...

“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 ...

This paper empirically estimates sustainable sovereign debt limits for 27 OECD countries, updating the model in Ghosh et al. (2013). We assess fiscal reaction functions, confirming the fiscal fatigue ...

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 ...

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, universities with large endowments face a higher tax on their investment income. The new law applies to private non-profit institutions of higher education that ...

Key Points – As Israel’s conventional strikes degrade Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure, the risk grows that a desperate Iranian regime could retaliate with radiological “dirty bombs” against ...

The bipartisan effort to reach a compromise on Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 2026) defense appropriations should be commended, even if it comes four months into the fiscal year. Added to the Military ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes we are on the cusp of an “intelligence age” that will bring unprecedented prosperity and capabilities to humanity. Getting here didn’t happen overnight, though the next ...

Spend any time working in education—either in K–12 schools or universities—and before long you will come across the concept of “transferable skills.” These are skills such as creativity, collaboration ...