If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...

On October 9, AEI’s Stan Veuger welcomed Princeton University’s Owen Zidar and University of Chicago’s Eric Zwick for a conversation about their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really ...

“The United States is a republic, not a democracy.” This is one of those oft-repeated expressions that one hears in civil discourse whose meaning nevertheless remains somewhat fuzzy. After all, the ...

Fear that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will invade Taiwan and draw the US into a massive war in the Pacific has for many years driven an increasing American focus on preparing for conflict ...

Students are not the only ones who enjoyed a reprieve during the nearly five-year pause on federal student loan payments. Colleges also got a break from a rule that bars them from the federal student ...

Conventional wisdom tells us that Democrats spend less on defense than Republicans. But is this true? A review of historical defense budget trends shows there is more at play in determining overall ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Doomers on the political left and right agree that economic growth has failed to translate into higher wages for American workers, with some claiming that pay has barely risen in 50 years. Such ...