One of the central contradictions in American politics today is that, despite decades of measurable progress for low-income ...

The Irving Kristol Award is the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute. AEI gives the award annually to an individual who has made exceptional intellectual and practical ...

With nearly 12 million borrowers behind on their federal student loans, there is a coming tidal wave of loan defaults.

AEI’s online speech project aims to move the debate about online content moderation and Section 230 beyond the familiar talking points, as well as broaden the conversation to a multistakeholder ...

The reckoning is here. The UC San Diego report is a warning about the consequences of a decade of magical thinking in education policy and practice. We replaced rigor with rhetoric, and the bill has ...

Rather than restrict the President’s executive power over removal, the Supreme Court needs to recognize the danger and unconstitutionality of administrative power. To be precise, the Court needs to ...

America celebrates heroes. But heroism often looks like this: a man who loved his wife before himself; a father who lifted up a child the world assumed would not survive; a worker who honored his ...

Following my lecture last week at Cornell, one Cornell professor, a well-known climate activist, called for the firing of the director of the Cornell Atkinson Institute for Sustai ...

AEI’s foreign and defense policy scholars are dedicated to the principle that American global leadership is vital to a peaceful, prosperous, and free world. Our research focuses on both today’s ...

While public-sector collective bargaining tends to crowd out the interests of students, families, and taxpayers in education policymaking, teachers unions’ power comes from subjecting teachers to a ...

The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has passed $2.5 trillion. The investment recovery that began after the end of zero-Covid stalled in 2024 but construction ...

It is time to end the GSE and the FHA exemptions for permanent buydowns and allow new home prices to finally adjust to market realities.