In many high-income democracies, the explosion of public borrowing over the past two decades has made it clear enough that a budgetary course correction is required, especially when analysis is ...

“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A ...

We should never take economic growth for granted. As Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind writes in his 2024 book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning, “Three facts, simple but remarkable, have ...

Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) introduced the Family First Act. This bill would significantly increase the Child Tax Credit (CTC), modify or eliminate other family tax provisions, and make the cap on the ...

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending ...

On January 15, AEI’s Kori Schake hosted a discussion with former Secretary of the US Air Force Heather Wilson and former Representative Mike Rogers on the delicate balance of the civil-military ...

With the advent of the Internet and social media, the introduction of smartphones, and the continued proliferation of other online technologies, pornography consumption has changed dramatically in our ...

You’ve heard it before: American democracy is dying. Our 237-year-old Constitution is out of date. The U.S. Senate and the Electoral College are bulwarks of white supremacy. The legislative ...

The decision last week by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, to immediately stop using “fact checkers” — groups hired by Meta to determine what information is ...

Later this month, President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of education will take office and confront a whirlwind of challenges. Just for starters, American students have continued to experience ...