The familiar struggle between living and dying powers is winding down, and another story, its outlines still obscure, is beginning to unfold.

Too many school boards act as if their job is to “support” the superintendent and staff—offering encouragement and deference, not impartial oversight.

With just over a year until the 2026 midterms, AEI’s Election Watch team will gather for a look at key off-year elections in New Jersey, New York City, and Virginia. The panel of election experts will ...

In today’s debate over Israel, hatred wears the mask of justice. Scroll, march, or listen on campus—everywhere, the same word appears in red: genocide. This idea is not only false; it is obscene. To ...

Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

Reactions to Beijing’s announcement and Trump’s tariff barking focused on the short-term. His reversal was also due to short-term concerns, in particular stocks. But the very serious problem is in the ...

Independents are so hot right now — and will be for the foreseeable future. According to a major survey commissioned by CNN, nearly half of all Americans — 44% — call themselves independents while ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Large-language models (LLMs) increasingly inform policy research. We asked 5 flagship LLMs from leading AI companies in 2025 (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and DeepSeek) to rate 26 prominent U.S.

suggested, the answer is clearly no. But while the democratic socialist front-runner to be New York’s next mayor isn’t going to establish a caliphate on the Hudson, we shouldn’t be dismissive of Mr.

We assess the macroeconomic implications of the observed and expected changes to immigration policy during the second Trump administration. We project that net migration in 2025 will be between ...

President Trump today issued a new executive order that extended two prior executive orders that declined to enforce the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, i.e., ...