AEI scholars and researchers often write for major news outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, and National Review.
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The Hill
There are a couple of ways to think about President Trump’s predictably failed effort to bar certain news organizations from the White House — if you have to think about it at all. One version…
BY Chris Stirewalt ON 25 Sep 26
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Paul Theroux’s final travelogue takes him to the land of an ancestor who arrived by "dumb luck and good timing."
BY Tunku Varadarajan ON 25 Sep 26
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Ari Schulman: Tony, I’ve spent the past year trying to make sense of what the Trump administration’s agenda is for science. It’s a tough job, because you hear two very different stories coming from the admin….
BY M. Anthony Mills + Ari Schulman ON 25 Sep 26
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Alliance for Learning Innovation
It’s time to return to No Child Left Behind’s original promise and make sure the students furthest behind are no longer overlooked.
BY Mark Schneider ON 25 Sep 26
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A second Ivy League university has just published a major report that calls on higher ed to reflect on its shortcomings and think about major reform. The report from Cornell University’s Committee on the Future…
BY Benjamin Storey + Jenna Silber Storey ON 25 Sep 26
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A nation afraid to promote its distinctive ideals is defenseless against ideological assault.
BY Matthew Continetti ON 25 Sep 26
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Congressional Democrats keep choosing lawfare over dialogue. It hasn’t worked yet. As the 2025 New York mayoral election played out, President Donald Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani as a “100% Communist Lunatic,” while Mamdani called Trump…
BY Marc A. Thiessen ON 25 Sep 26
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The sun is both friend and foe. The immense energy released by the sun radiates into space as the sunlight that sustains life on Earth. Occasionally a violent solar flare, technically called a Coronal Mass…
BY R. Richard Geddes + Sol Gruner ON 24 Sep 26
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We the People of these United States have many epochal achievements to our credit, but when the humans of 2500 look back at our era, Americans’ pioneering achievements in artificial intelligence may loom largest of…
BY Philip Wallach ON 24 Sep 26
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What will AI mean for large-scale philanthropy, and for the civil society it helps underwrite?
BY Daniel Stid ON 24 Sep 26
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A Trojan Horse effort to place RCP8.5 back at the center of climate science and policy
BY Roger Pielke Jr. ON 24 Sep 26
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Test scores aren’t the whole story. The CEO of GreatSchools talks about what parents want.
BY Frederick M. Hess ON 24 Sep 26
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Hedging is hard. Just ask Saudi Arabia, which is losing faith in the US but doesn't have any good alternative options, just yet.
BY Hal Brands ON 24 Sep 26
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By recklessly undermining trust in what should be an apolitical public agency, Donald Trump is jeopardizing a critical pillar of American prosperity.
BY Michael R. Strain ON 24 Sep 26
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Fox News
When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term on Oct. 5, the justices will face the critical question of whether Congress or Boulder, Colorado, controls American energy policy. Cities such as Boulder, Honolulu and Baltimore have…
BY John Yoo ON 24 Sep 26
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American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
The transition amid a reduced emphasis on the US nuclear umbrella could create security gaps in deterrence credibility and impede transition timelines. North Korea may also test the new command structure through provocations following the…
BY Dan Blumenthal + Alexis Turek + Yeji Chung + et al. ON 23 Sep 26
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Dear readers, Since the Democrats’ defeat to Donald Trump in 2024, many people in and around the party—including us—have been engaged in robust debates about how they should move forward. This month, longtime Democratic operative…
BY Ruy Teixeira + Michael Baharaeen ON 23 Sep 26
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No one likes to think they’re being hysterical. And nothing makes hysterical people angrier than being described as such. So, let me offer my apologies in advance for what follows. Jeremy Musighi, an independent researcher,…
BY Jonah Goldberg ON 23 Sep 26
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As Election Day approaches, pollsters spend a lot of time trying to figure out who is going to vote and who will stay home. Public pollsters are tightening their screening techniques, moving from all-adult samples…
BY Karlyn Bowman ON 23 Sep 26
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Addiction is a powerful force, and adults in its throes will often choose drugs even over the safety and well-being of their children.
BY Naomi Schaefer Riley ON 23 Sep 26
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Colleges frequently claim that undergraduate education will transform students into “critical thinkers.” The famously progressive Brown University uses the phrase “critical thinking” to describe its curriculum, as does the famously conservative Hillsdale College. The scholar-activists…
BY Benjamin Storey + Jenna Silber Storey ON 23 Sep 26
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Poverty rates are at an all-time low of 10.2 percent, so why the lack of positive media coverage? The answer: liberals’ longer-run zeal to promote more government benefits and chastise anyone who might cut them.
BY Matt Weidinger ON 23 Sep 26
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The surprisingly cordial Gracie Mansion meeting between President Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani may have reassured New Yorkers that political differences between the two will not threaten the federal aid on which the city budget…
BY Howard Husock ON 22 Sep 26
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As funding is being siphoned away from residential care facilities, many high-needs children in the foster care system are stuck in home placements that are neither safe nor therapeutic.
BY Naomi Schaefer Riley ON 22 Sep 26
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That night I thought I was going to be reading my daughter a children’s book. Instead, she handed me a very old lesson about what we owe one another.
BY Samuel J. Abrams ON 22 Sep 26
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American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
Japan is developing its own central intelligence agency for the first time since World War II. This effort underscores the failure of China's pressure campaign to divide Japan and its security partners and dissuade Japan…
BY Dan Blumenthal + Alexis Turek + Luke Jacobus + et al. ON 22 Sep 26
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How much Americans are paying for the war in fuel, taxes, and interest
BY Roger Pielke Jr. ON 22 Sep 26
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England borrowed some of its most important education ideas from America. Now it may be time to return the favor.
BY Robert Pondiscio + Nick Gibb ON 22 Sep 26
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The Hill
The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel in the Des Moines, Iowa, metro area at the start of this week was $6.33. If you ran a business that relied on short-haul transportation—local deliveries,…
BY Chris Stirewalt ON 22 Sep 26
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If Republicans lose big in November, watch for them to move away from Trump and back toward Reagan. Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans. Real economic growth is slowing, consumer prices rising, and real wages…
BY Phil Gramm + Donald J. Boudreaux ON 22 Sep 26
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The recent movement toward reinstating standardized testing requirements may help colleges ensure that the students they admit are academically prepared.
BY Preston Cooper ON 22 Sep 26
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A ruling for Boulder could open the door to a wave of local lawsuits with major consequences for US energy producers and consumers.
BY Benjamin Zycher ON 22 Sep 26
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And he seems uninterested in cleaning it up. I grew up in Boston, and as a Red Sox fan, I’m used to watching the game winning ball go between the outfielder’s legs. Hell, when I…
BY Danielle Pletka ON 22 Sep 26
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Reliability is multidimensional. Our resource adequacy standard is a scalar. Something has to give.
BY L. Lynne Kiesling ON 22 Sep 26
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Surprise medical bills are what Americans fear most in paying for health care
BY David Hyman + Benedic N. Ippolito ON 22 Sep 26
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Democratic people can be restless without wanting to overturn their social order.
BY L. Lynne Kiesling ON 22 Sep 26
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Over the past week or so, the 10-year Treasury yield has inched upward to nearly 5%, a critical psychological threshold for investors around the world. Amid the million articles being posted on this rise (this…
BY Steven B. Kamin ON 22 Sep 26
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When the subject isn’t Israel, Paris’s human rights positions at the UN acquire a certain flexibility.
BY Brett D. Schaefer + Danielle Pletka ON 21 Sep 26
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In much of the past 150 years, industry hasn’t been capturing regulatory agencies — it’s been fathering them. And now the AI giants want to do the same thing. I call it “regulatory robbery.”
BY Timothy P. Carney ON 21 Sep 26
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The 2026 primary contests will soon be over. Last week in New Hampshire, two members of that state’s storied political families won their races. What do Americans think about these political dynasties, and how are…
BY Karlyn Bowman ON 21 Sep 26
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In response to the rise of artificial intelligence, some schools are promoting coding classes focused more on critical theory than learning how computers work.
BY Naomi Schaefer Riley ON 21 Sep 26
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Adopt a simple rule: Create a total dollar spending target, and keep it steady year over year.
BY Ramesh Ponnuru ON 21 Sep 26
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With the follow-up to A Search for Common Ground now written, I’m reminded how odd the education discourse has gotten.
BY Frederick M. Hess ON 21 Sep 26
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On Tuesday, September 22, President Donald Trump will address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In his first-ever address to the UNGA in 2017, Trump thanked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres “for recognizing that the…
BY Brett D. Schaefer ON 21 Sep 26
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National Review
Maybe artificial intelligence will kill us all in the next few years. Count me dubious, but who knows? We’re certainly doing our best to deserve it. But whether we are doomed or not, the tone…
BY Yuval Levin ON 21 Sep 26
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Democrats are counting on the nation to repudiate Mr. Trump. But it may be one of their own, Tip O’Neill, who has the last laugh.
BY Matthew Continetti ON 21 Sep 26
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Democrats are using the schools they control and the state power they wield to impose their morality and their brand-new ideology, and they are dragging children away from parents who don’t abide by this novel…
BY Timothy P. Carney ON 20 Sep 26
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Abortion is legal in almost all cases in Virginia, but that’s not good enough for the Democrats. They want to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, and they want to strip nearly all abortion regulations…
BY Timothy P. Carney ON 20 Sep 26
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Anthony Kaldellis offers a rigorous and revisionist history of the 1453 conquest of Constantinople.
BY Tunku Varadarajan ON 20 Sep 26
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Oleg Lyalin asked MI5 to expel him from London. His plan was to return home, divorce his wife—and then spy for the British.
BY Tunku Varadarajan ON 20 Sep 26
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The U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress is responsible “To provide and maintain a Navy.” Never has this clause been more important. In June 2022, I argued that the Navy was broken and Congress needed to launch a…
BY John G. Ferrari ON 19 Sep 26
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These were among the more inspiring words I heard during my two-week sojourn in the Land of the Rising Sun. Here’s hoping policymakers on both ends of the Pacific heed them — and that Japan…
BY Michael M. Rosen ON 19 Sep 26
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Hint: It has little to do with imparting knowledge to students.
BY Daniel Buck ON 19 Sep 26
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It’s clear that we cannot rely on the executive or the judiciary to reach a stable settlement at the border.
BY Charles Lane ON 18 Sep 26
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Promoting ideologies and political activism is simply not the proper role of the teacher in the classroom.
BY Samuel J. Abrams ON 18 Sep 26
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Today, the masters of the AI universe have combined forces, and the leaders of the Democratic Party have joined hands with this cabal. The consequences could be far worse than higher prices for your chatbot.
BY Timothy P. Carney ON 18 Sep 26
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The 20th-century advance in American pharmaceutical science was driven by a cohort of devoted researchers working with ambitious drug companies In late 1936, a 30-year-old Harvard chemist named Max Tishler was looking for a new…
BY David Shaywitz ON 18 Sep 26
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American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
Japan is developing its own central intelligence agency for the first time since World War II. This effort underscores the failure of China's pressure campaign to divide Japan and its security partners and dissuade Japan…
BY Dan Blumenthal + Alexis Turek + Julia Irvin + et al. ON 18 Sep 26
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Decades of research on mental health suggests that giving kids and then teens and then young adults increasing amounts of responsibility not only prepares them for life but improves their outlook.
BY Naomi Schaefer Riley ON 18 Sep 26
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Federal regulators have an opportunity to ensure that judges are being trained accurately on gender identity issues.
BY Naomi Schaefer Riley ON 18 Sep 26
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Suddenly the technology is sapping people’s concentration in a new way, one that abstaining from AI won’t fix.
BY Thomas Chatterton Williams ON 18 Sep 26
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Climate change is not so important that it justifies compromising scientific integrity or the institutions that assess and advise where science meets policy.
BY Roger Pielke Jr. ON 18 Sep 26
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What exactly should teachers learn if not Freire and French critical theory?
BY Daniel Buck ON 18 Sep 26
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The Hill
In the run-up to last fall’s state elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats belatedly found a weapon to use against the barrage of GOP attacks on the blue team’s nominee for Virginia attorney general….
BY Chris Stirewalt ON 18 Sep 26
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Instead of obfuscating Success Academy’s success, Commissioner Betty Rosa should be championing the schools that get results.
BY Mark Schneider ON 18 Sep 26
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That, while also maximizing the upside of a powerful general-purpose technology
BY James Pethokoukis ON 18 Sep 26
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While progressive policies may look attractive on the surface, one thing undermines them: practicality.
BY Howard Husock ON 18 Sep 26
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"The only thing I would add to it," says architect Daniel Libeskind, "would be a bell to ring the alarm of today’s growing antisemitism."
BY Tunku Varadarajan ON 18 Sep 26
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By taking the offensive, President Trump can shift the focus of attention from America’s perceived vulnerabilities to Iran’s actual deterioration.
BY Matthew Continetti ON 18 Sep 26
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On a sunny Tuesday morning 25 years ago, Congress reconvened. Speaker Dennis Hastert called the House of Representatives to order, and the Illinois Republican recognized Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The bowtie-wearing Democrat from Oregon began delivering a speech criticizing the marketing of tobacco. He was…
BY Kevin R. Kosar ON 18 Sep 26
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A nuclear-style freeze on AI development would just hand the advantage to Beijing. Here is the real AI threat to humanity: the danger that Americans panic, hit the brakes on AI development and lose the…
BY Marc A. Thiessen ON 17 Sep 26
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A new Department of Housing and Urban Development rule gives directors of public housing authorities hope that they will be able to aid their tenants through the dignity of work.
BY Howard Husock ON 17 Sep 26
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This settlement is better understood as a small step in the right direction rather than a significant victory for people who would like to see a broader reckoning for social media companies.
BY Christine Rosen ON 17 Sep 26
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National Review
The return of fighting in the Strait of Hormuz is producing calls for a renewed deal with Iran. But the last deal, the Islamabad memorandum, did not fail for want of good terms. It failed because…
BY John Yoo ON 17 Sep 26
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On the many definitions of the term “word salad.”
BY Joshua T. Katz ON 17 Sep 26
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It’s easy to underestimate how much the Democratic Party has changed in this century. In particular, you can miss how liberals have gone from being a voice in the choir to the choir director. Cast…
BY Ruy Teixeira ON 17 Sep 26
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The Warsh Fed is off to a strong start in bringing inflation back down to two percent and protecting its independence.
BY Michael R. Strain ON 17 Sep 26
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The College Transparency Act gives students and families better information to decide which college—or whether to go to college—is right for them.
BY Preston Cooper + Ben Cecil ON 17 Sep 26
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The organization’s platform is sometimes horrifying—but also starry-eyed and naive.
BY Gary Rosen ON 17 Sep 26
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Democrats are quickly moving to block the Trump administration’s latest effort to change the 2030 Census by adding a question about citizenship status and excluding undocumented immigrants and noncitizens without permanent residency from the population…
BY Howard Husock ON 17 Sep 26
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Trump's dividend check announcement is set to be one of many in a long line of failed benefit promises.
BY Matt Weidinger ON 17 Sep 26
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New York has spent much of the past two decades weakening expectations and abandoning accountability mechanisms.
BY Robert Pondiscio ON 17 Sep 26
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What are the characteristics of a good politician? Judging by the caliber of many current aspirants for public office, it’s a question we rarely bother to ask anymore, preferring instead to shrug and say, Who…
BY Christine Rosen ON 17 Sep 26
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Joshua Glover’s largely forgotten story reminds us that the Constitution has endured because it created not only a structure of government, but a means by which Americans can seek a more perfect Union.
BY Allen C. Guelzo + Michael D. Jahr ON 17 Sep 26
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More than a squabble over facts, the debate is about the meaning of truth in history.
BY Christian Alejandro Gonzalez ON 17 Sep 26
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Before focusing on the technology, we need to redesign the learning model, Michael Horn argues.
BY Frederick M. Hess ON 16 Sep 26
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America spent a summer telling children that turning 250 meant something, and there is no reason to let that end here.
BY Samuel J. Abrams ON 16 Sep 26
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Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
Perceptions of the United Nations have evolved in recent years. There has always been a divide between conservatives and liberals, the latter generally more favourable to supranational organisations that purport to do good things, and…
BY Danielle Pletka ON 16 Sep 26
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Honor matters in foreign policy.
BY Jonah Goldberg ON 16 Sep 26
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American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
The transition amid a reduced emphasis on the US nuclear umbrella could create security gaps in deterrence credibility and impede transition timelines. North Korea may also test the new command structure through provocations following the…
BY Dan Blumenthal + Alexis Turek + Yeji Chung + et al. ON 16 Sep 26
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When we apply Isaiah Berlin's notions of liberty to the classroom, we find that it is necessary to constrain ourselves in the moment for a greater degree of liberty in the future.
BY Daniel Buck ON 16 Sep 26
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If the US is thinking about pausing or pacing the AI frontier, it also needs to get serious about ensuring reciprocal Chinese restraint.
BY Hal Brands ON 16 Sep 26
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Sen. Ron Wyden has ideas that are more practical than Medicare for All but still pricey. As the midterm elections approach, politicians are debating healthcare within the broader context of “affordability,” or, more precisely, the…
BY James C. Capretta ON 16 Sep 26
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According to an adage, it is not good to bite the hand that feeds you. Evidently, President Donald Trump does not buy into this adage as he weaponizes U.S. financial policy and arbitrarily imposes punitive…
BY Desmond Lachman ON 16 Sep 26
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And some of it will inevitably subsidize terrorism Conservatives often consider the tenure of Donald Trump and accept that they take the good with the bad. And, they underscore, the good is of a caliber…
BY Danielle Pletka ON 16 Sep 26
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Our principle should be that sites of veneration should only honor figures who deserve our praise.
BY Christian Alejandro Gonzalez ON 15 Sep 26
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American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Study of War
Japan is developing its own central intelligence agency for the first time since World War II. This effort underscores the failure of China's pressure campaign to divide Japan and its security partners and dissuade Japan…
BY Dan Blumenthal + Alexis Turek + Julia Irvin + et al. ON 15 Sep 26
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Dear readers of The Long View and WelcomeStack, It is hardly an overstatement to say that the late Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank was one of America’s most influential national political figures during his time in…
BY Ruy Teixeira ON 15 Sep 26
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The central bank must respond to major events as they unexpectedly occur.The Book of Ecclesiastes famously taught that to everything there is a season. This would also seem to be the case as to whether…
BY Desmond Lachman ON 15 Sep 26
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This industry is physically and economically complicated, built on enormous infrastructure. Is it really this weird everywhere, or just here?
BY L. Lynne Kiesling ON 15 Sep 26