In 1996, Alan Greenspan coined the term irrational exuberance to describe what he considered to be a grossly overvalued stock market driven by the promise of an internet-driven economic revolution.

The great question of the AI age is not whether machines will become more powerful. They will. Rather, the question is whether we will remain serious enough about forming souls to ensure that the ...

On May 14, AEI’s Beth Akers hosted an event focused on the current state of the value and accountability movement in US higher education policy. Following opening remarks by Dr. Akers, the event began ...

Across a daylong conference of keynotes and panels, participants emphasized that today’s electricity challenges are not merely about adding supply but about aligning policy, markets, and finance with ...

On May 11, AEI hosted Zena Hitz for the final edition of the American Dream Lecture Series. She delivered a lecture on the necessity of liberal education for democratic citizenship before sitting down ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

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 ...

The AP program has expanded rapidly since 1990 to become the primary program for providing US public high school students with advanced coursework, with nearly two in five graduates earning AP credit ...

About fifteen years ago, I participated in some war games about the possibility of an attack on Iran, not unlike what now unfolds. I was on the Iran team. Our goal was to stymie the U.S. and Israeli ...

Michael Lewis’s groundbreaking book Moneyball showed how the established metrics of baseball were outdated, leading to bad decisions by team owners and general managers. Lewis documented how the ...

According to the latest trade data from the US Census Bureau, as reported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), 1 US agricultural exports for calendar year 2024 are estimated at $174.4 billion, ...

College and university presidents routinely speak about dialogue, viewpoint diversity, and the importance of working through difference. Those commitments are easy to affirm when disagreement is ...