Earlier this week we posted an article on long-term trends in US defense spending. Surprisingly, we found that inflation adjusted per capita defense expenditures have remained essentially unchanged ...

When a U.S. president bestows major non-NATO ally status on countries, it is not just an honorific.The status bestows privileges on the recipient, allowing it favorable access to materials and ...

There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let me first start with the process of budgeting, that process of drafting a plan for raising revenue ...

What distinguishes the current situation is the unusually large constellation of major economic and geopolitical downside risks. That constellation makes the current consensus view of a continued ...

A video from August of 2024 of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) emerita Professor Vivian Burt explaining her resignation at a Regents meeting from her position due to anti-Semitism is ...

Since our nation's founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States.

This project assesses the potential consequences for defense spending if Russia were to defeat Ukraine and demonstrates that the aid the United States currently provides to Ukraine through the ...

The legacy of the Biden administration’s Department of Education seems less likely to be characterized by its accomplishments than by its shifting of the Overton window away from things it is averse ...

On January 8, Russian opposition leader and Pulitzer Prize–winner Vladimir Kara-Murza joined AEI’s Leon Aron for a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s hopes for freedom in a post–Vladimir ...

In a 2023 landmark case, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court held that Harvard’s admissions process for new students violated the ...