Congress must immediately restore the legal protections of CISA 2015 before a catastrophic cyberattack reminds us why we built these defenses in the first place. The post Restoring America’s Cyber Shield: Why CISA 2015 Must Be Reenacted Now appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
California and most other states that show a similar slowdown still have a great deal of work to do to return to acceptable levels of attendance. That work has to focus on the everyday behaviors of most California schools, families and students. The post Did ICE Raids and Wildfires Slow California’s Progress on Student Absenteeism? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
This week I had the privilege of speaking at AEI’s screening of the Free to Choose Network’s documentary The True Cost of Defense. Moderated by Kori Schake and with our good friend Robert Chatfield as a panelist, we unpacked the film’s implications in today’s context of affording defense. The post How Much Is Enough? The True Cost of Defense appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
We should let China struggle to meet its own inference demand — not ease the pressure by shipping them U.S.-designed chips. The post Selling Chips to China Is Still a Terrible Idea appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
When most people picture artificial intelligence, they imagine spectacular transformations—robots building cars, digital assistants writing novels, or algorithms as CEOs. Meanwhile, AI’s most significant effect to date has been in the corner of the economy that created it: software. The post The Quiet AI Revolution appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
If AI didn’t write the story, then it is hard to see how it came about given how absurd the proposition is. Maybe someone asked Santa for an Australian data center as a Christmas wish and somehow Chinese whispers scrambled the message? The post Australia Wishes for Cloud Data Storage for Christmas appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The new federal framework for defining professional programs ensures financing for high-cost, high-return degrees and prevents unpayable debt. The post A Welcome Consensus on Professional Student Loan Limits appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
As the largest contributor to the UN system, the US is correct to call for a reduction in UN salaries and benefits to bring them in line with the member state that the UN has identified as having the best comparator civil service: the United States. The post US Signals Intent to Cut UN Salaries appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
If we want healthier men, stronger families, and more resilient communities, we must treat the friendship recession as a civic warning sign. Rebuilding institutions that once helped men form lasting bonds—fraternal organizations, faith communities, mentoring networks—can help. The post Men Need Brotherhood, Not Just Resilience appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
For the first time since the ACA was enacted, political developments are pushing congressional Democrats into direct negotiations with the GOP over key features. An option that is not on either party’s radar but should be is helping more low-wage workers stay in employer plans. The post Congress Should Look to Employer Health Coverage to Help Low-Wage Workers appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The source of our trade deficits is our penchant to spend more than we produce. Until we reduce our spending relative to what we produce, we will continue to rack up large trade deficits. The post Trump’s Trade Deficit Folly appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Congress should resist the urge to fix what isn’t broken. The real danger isn’t Apple or Google managing their platforms—it’s Washington deciding to control them instead. The post The App Store Freedom Act Would Hurt Those It Claims to Protect appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Civic health depends on anticipation, on defending decency while it still costs something, and on showing up before the crisis, not after. History rarely forgives silence, and politics rarely rewards it. Moral clarity matters most not when it is easy, but when it is lonely. The post The Civic Cost of Waiting appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
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 come due. The post A Sad Collapse in Student Preparation at UC San Diego Was Inevitable appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The road from lab experiments to everyday applications will likely be long, but Google’s work hints at a future where artificial intelligence doesn’t just get bigger—it gets smarter, more predictable, and more human in the way it learns. The post Teaching Machines to Remember appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
We should hope that Brussels’ pause on its AI rulebook really does mark the first crack in years of defensive policymaking, with more to come. If it signals a broader shift from moral grandstanding to maximizing competitive intensity, Americans should cheer—not jeer. The post Europe’s Slowdown Is America’s Problem, Too appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The classroom should remain a place of experimentation and freedom. But freedom is not secrecy. It’s confidence; the willingness to let our work be seen, tested, and debated. Faculty who fear public syllabi are fighting the wrong battle. The post Sunlight Isn’t the Enemy: Why Faculty Should Welcome Syllabus Transparency appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Should we really look at a written Constitution and wonder what our Supreme Court’s adventurous doctrines have added or subtracted? The post Fourth Amendment Doctrine vs. Textualism appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The essence of democratic leadership is not domination but devotion to process, to pluralism, to the idea that authority is temporary and accountable. Because in the end, the city belongs to no one who claims to rule it. It belongs to the people who build, sustain, and love it every day. The post The Mayor Does Not “Rule” the City appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
My students insist that Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's November 4, 2025, general election marks the ascension of socialism. They're wrong. Mamdani's win was striking but hardly a mandate. It was a local triumph inflated by media narrative and youthful zeal, not a genuine ideological revolution. The post Mamdani Won, but It’s Not a Socialist Mandate appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
In an era where partisanship often clouds even the most practical policy conversations, LEO policy lends itself to common ground. The post Low Earth Orbit Satellites Are Taking Off. Governments Need to Catch Up. appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Importantly, the merger poses little risk of competitive harm because the companies’ service areas barely overlap, so the merger will not reduce the number of head-to-head competitors in any market. Overall, the proposed deal will improve the combined company’s competitive position in its legacy markets while positioning it to act as a potential disruptor in newer sectors. In an industry where regional players must now compete in national arenas, this transaction represents both a rationa...| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
If Republicans want to have an electoral future, to win back their 2024 supporters and expand their coalition in the future, they need to make sure voters from all backgrounds feel welcome in the party. We know foreign-born American citizens and their children are attracted to Republicans’ perspective on work, family, faith, and country. The post What I Saw in New York’s Election appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
Markets and much of Corporate America may welcome even a modest curb on presidential tariff power but the broader direction is sobering: Tariffs have become a permanent tool of economic statecraft, at least under this administration.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Without an accelerated, coordinated push to cut chronic absenteeism rates, the country’s schools risk arriving at a new normal in which millions more students each year will be chronically absent than were before the pandemic’s surge.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
President Trump should keep his administration focused on the hard power the U.S.-Japan alliance needs to deter and win. After all, it is power, not promises, that delivers peace through strength.| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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
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
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
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
America at 250 An initiative by the American Enterprise Institute aimed at reintroducing Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. The American Enterprise The American Enterprise publishes monthly, long-form opinion essays and commentary exploring pressing issues and ideas critical to a free society. Policy Areas Research Products Articles & Op-Eds Upcoming Events Multimedia Scholars| American Enterprise Institute - AEI
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 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
