Education researchers from AEI’s Chronic Absenteeism Research Working Group present findings from nine new studies on the causes, consequences, and characteristics of post-pandemic chronic absenteeism in the US.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The latest data suggest that although states are making progress in the fight against chronic absenteeism, that progress isn’t coming quickly enough.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Although reaching satisfactory resolutions may be problematic, a multi-stakeholder conversation must begin now on how—for society’s good—cloud-based systems can be made more resilient. The post We Need to Talk About Cloud Resilience appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
In a city where antisemitism now hides behind academic jargon and activist slogans, self-assertion is not parochial; it is necessary. The real danger is not that Jews might think too much of themselves, but that they might think too little. The post Solidarity Requires Self-Respect appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The attendance crisis has dealt, and is continuing to deal, a serious setback to student achievement. Getting students back in school won’t by itself reverse the precipitous decline in American students’ test scores. But reversing the trend without improving attendance will be far harder. The post Absenteeism Is Up. Does It Matter as Much for Student Achievement? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The standard reading of the current government shutdown is a relatively simple Republicans-versus-Democrats tale. But as the shutdown enters week four, the stalemate can’t be explained as just a continuing partisan clash. The post Democrats Fear Their Liberal Base If They Vote to Reopen Government appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Shane Tews met with Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo to discuss how the cybersecurity landscape quickly shifting due to AI-powered illicit activity and how can we ensure a secure inbox. The post Using AI to Fight AI in the Email Inbox appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Market power in technology is temporary because the underlying technology isn’t. The “hipster antitrust” school wanted to preemptively dismantle the very success that enabled these companies to invest in the emerging Age of AI. The post The “Forever Company” Myth About Big Tech Didn’t Last Forever appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, is supposed to have said: “Know your enemy and know yourself—that’s how you win before the fight even starts.” Had President Trump paid heed to that advice, he would not have made the claim that a trade war with China would be easy to win. The post Trump Knows Not His Chinese Economy Enemy appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Trump’s Argentina bailout is a bad idea. But if the administration is bound and determined to fork over the cash, using it to dollarize would be the best way to promote a lasting stabilization of Argentina’s economy. The post Use the $40 Billion to Dollarize Argentina appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Recently, media and think tank interest has increased about possible reforms to the disability programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). As I led the effort on such a regulation in the first Trump Administration, reporters have contacted me, and others are citing my work, sometimes inaccurately. Therefore, I am writing this blog post to set the record straight. The post Disability Debates appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
A survey conducted for the Freedom Forum about one month before Charlie Kirk’s assassination reveals that many people––especially younger ones––already feared speaking out due to potentially negative consequences. Dialing back retributive impulses that chill online expression and foster self-censorship is essential for a robust pluralistic society. The post Fear of Speaking Out Online: Data and Contentions About Self-Censorship appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The US will never be safe from Chinese blackmail if we refuse to make anything that causes ecological harm. This is a long-term challenge no president can meet alone—Congress must act. The post A Difficult, Necessary Response to China: Curb the National Environmental Policy Act appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Civility is not passivity. It’s the precondition of civilization, the choice to uphold order and control myself even when chaos feels justified. That morning, I made that choice. Not because it felt good, but because my son was watching. The post The Hard Discipline of Calm appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The tragedy is that the impulse behind participatory democracy—the desire for inclusion and fairness—has translated into bureaucratic systems that confuse involvement with improvement. Until we rediscover forms of governance that reward results instead of rituals, we’ll keep mistaking the appearance of responsiveness for the real thing. The post Procedural Rituals over Governance Results appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
A recent NBC News story suggests why mainstream economic logic still holds in the age of AI “slop.” Technological progress tends to automate tasks, not eliminate work. The printing press, the spreadsheet, and Photoshop all threatened jobs before spawning new ones. Generative AI looks no different. The post How AI ‘Slop’ Still Pays the Bills appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
No one understands better than I do the blind spots and ideological zeal that plague left-leaning philanthropy. But I am equally sure of this: The Trump-Vance Administration’s efforts to intimidate and punish progressive funders will be a cure far worse than the affliction. The post We Will Miss Philanthropic Freedom When It’s Gone appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Congress should continue to support the prudent exercise of building in some excess industrial capacity within key industries like munitions and shipbuilding in order to sustain forces engaged in long wars, rapidly resupply troops forward, and allow for mobility in contested logistics environments. The post WWII Plants, 21st-Century Needs: The Army’s Industrial Base Modernization Drive appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Activism has a proud history in America. But if students truly wish to change the world, they must first learn how the world works. That means showing up for class, studying history, and mastering the unglamorous details of democracy. The post Performative Politics: Why Today’s Campus Protests Fail Where History’s Movements Succeeded appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The last thing that an over-indebted Japan struggling with inflation needs is a prime minister who advocates fiscal stimulus and a loose monetary policy to stimulate the Japanese economy. Yet, that is where Japan seems to be headed with the recent election of Sanae Takaichi. The post On the Road to a Japanese Yen Crisis appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
In place of broad financial surveillance, I propose a system through which law enforcement agencies could query digital transactors for investigative purposes. Such a system would maintain or strengthen law enforcement capabilities while obviating the existing broad and costly financial surveillance regime. The post Innovative Methods To Detect Illicit Activity Involving Digital Assets appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
On November 5, the Supreme Court is scheduled to begin hearings on the legality of President Trump’s use of emergency power to raise import tariffs. If the court rules correctly, it will reject the Trump administration’s defense that these tariffs were imposed to deal with the supposed emergency constituted by the country’s large trade deficit. The post Import Tariffs and the Supreme Court appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Furthering EU-US technological cooperation is critical to advancing innovation.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
On “Explain to Shane,” AEI’s Shane Tews interviews experts to discuss the intersection of technology and public policy—and how the apps, services, and structures of today’s information technology system shape our social and economic lives. Episodes are released every other Tuesday and past episodes can be found below.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
In 1965, leaders of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) commissioned a series of papers focused on strengthening the legislative branch’s institutional standing. Among the submissions was Aaron Wildavsky’s on reforming how Congress participates in the federal budget process. His analysis is interesting for providing insights that are still relevant alongside observations that were quickly overtaken by events. The post Aaron Wildavsky’s Anti-Government Shutdown Plan appeared first ...| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
While commemorating Indigenous peoples’ histories and cultures is laudable, honoring UNDRIP may cost societies. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Spectrum Ownership appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Too many school boards act as if their job is to “support” the superintendent and staff—offering encouragement and deference, not impartial oversight. The post When School Boards Act Like the PTA appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
By repealing the school bus and hotspot expansions, the Carr Commission has restored the E-Rate program to its proper scope: supporting broadband connections for classrooms and libraries. The post Carr Reins in FCC Overreach on School Wi-Fi appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Strong encryption is the backbone of digital privacy and secure data. Pressure on the government to weaken encryption is mounting, which raises some serious concerns. How do we preserve strong encryption standards in the face of security concerns? And must we pick between security and privacy? Earlier this year, Shane Tews moderated a panel titled […]| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Local and state policymakers can adopt “teacher codes of conduct” to stipulate that teachers are welcomed and encouraged to address age-appropriate controversial topics with students, so long as teachers provide students access to varying points of view when they do so.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Performative anti-wokeness will not solve the problem of teacher preparation.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
As the current government shutdown continues, the nation also awaits new national security and defense strategies. It is important that these documents provide clear guidance to align agency budgets to strategic priorities, and to each other.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
AEI’s research is informed by the understanding that freedom and prosperity depend on healthy social and political institutions. The freedom that Americans enjoy is defined by laws that limit the reach of government, but also by a political culture that gives life to the laws and to the principles they embody. Under limited government, most of the work of improving people’s lives is done by families, schools, religious congregations, and voluntary organizations.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
If universities hope to reclaim their essential role, they must lead again: speaking when silence tempts, teaching when slogans seduce, and remembering that genuine neutrality isn't the absence of principles but the courage to uphold education's fundamental values against all forms of ideological capture.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
If Harvard acts with integrity and empathy, it can begin to restore confidence that has been badly shaken. If it hides behind legalese or delay, it will confirm what many already suspect: that the nation’s oldest university has lost its legitimacy.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Countless lawsuits filed against online media companies and blaming them for all manner of harms raise important questions about human agency, causation, blame shifting, and the power of speech.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Democracy depends on words, not weapons. If we fail to defend that principle now, we will pay a steep price later. Campuses must once again be places where ideas clash fiercely but peacefully and where even the most offensive speech is met not with violence, but with better arguments.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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The Department of Defense and Congress need to understand the depths of the issues that are holding back America’s ability to regain the level of technological dominance necessary to maintain deterrence or prevail in a war if deterrence fails. The following twelve problem areas are offered to begin to frame that understanding.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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President Donald Trump announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent. He described the tariffs as reciprocal; however, they are nothing of the sort.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The mental health professions today are home to therapists who are overwhelmingly female, liberal, and politically aware. As self-declared enemies of privilege, they are primed to imbibe the social justice narrative and accept it as the proper objective of therapy.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The United States should strive toward an energy system with fewer barriers to innovation and more opportunities for consumers to access affordable and dependable power systems, decide how and when they consume (and produce) the electricity they want and need, and invest in the solutions that bring them the greatest value.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
DeepSeek's rise underscores the importance of American investment in artificial intelligence.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
As I wrote in the summer of 2018 on CD, I’ve probably created and posted more than 3,000 graphics on CD, Twitter, and Facebook including charts, graphs, tables, figures, maps, and Venn diagrams over the last 15 years. Of all of those graphics, I don’t think any has gotten more attention, links, re-Tweets, re-posts, and […]| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
