The Jones Act, introduced in 1920 shortly after the end of World War I when the United States confronted a surplus of coastal shipping, was ill-advised when Congress passed the bill 105 years ago and ...
In an era when so much of American life feels abstract and nationalized, those local ties may be more important than ever. They remind us that citizenship does not begin with ideology. It begins with ...
The left’s approach to promoting teacher diversity is problematic, but that does not mean we should dismiss the goal of increasing teacher diversity.
The observation that tariffs cannot replace the income tax is not new. Several experts have made the same point. The math is straightforward: We cannot replace the income tax with tariffs.
The China & Taiwan Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan ...
The Civic Thought Project is a joint endeavor of scholars from the American Enterprise Institute and faculty from Johns Hopkins University. Our group began meeting at the opening of the 2024 academic ...
The first year of the second Trump administration has seen dramatic changes in immigration policy, resulting in a sharp slowdown in net migration to the United States. We expect the pattern of ...
China’s military advancement, demographic decline, multidimensional trade success, political repression, and perhaps other features may be more important than its macroeconomic performance. Still, the ...
President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, had the ...
Recent age data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) appears to confirm that young FTBs are facing desperate times. Based on the NAR’s 2025 report Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, it ...
Hundreds of “No Kings” rallies were held across the United States in October. They could just have easily been called “No Trump” rallies. President Donald Trump wants to be a king, the marchers assure ...
Unless the Senate passes legislation that reopens the federal government within the next few days (or the courts intervene), 22 million households containing 42 million individuals (approximately 12 ...