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Op-Ed
February 08, 2025

Can MAGA Run the American Empire?

The New York Times
There is a division on the right over whether the goal of Trumpian foreign policy is to rightsize the American empire, using restraint and rebalancing to sustain a dominant position in a multipolar world, or to fall back to a North American perimeter, not precisely isolationist but very much in retreat.
By Ross Douthat
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, arrive a campaign rally, Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Op-Ed
February 14, 2025
Commentary

They Just Don’t Get It

By Matthew Continetti
Op-Ed
February 14, 2025
Breaking Defense

DOGE or Be DOGE’d: The Army Needs to Preemptively Start Cutting

By John G. Ferrari
Post
February 13, 2025
AEIdeas

A Trumpian Budgetary Fog

By James C. Capretta
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February 14, 2025
AEIdeas

Regarding Reciprocal Trade …

By James Pethokoukis
Podcast
February 14, 2025
Harvard Business School

Ed Glaeser on Cities, Work, and Why America Struggles to Build

By Edward L. Glaeser

Education

Post
February 14, 2025
AEIdeas

Trump Appointees to the US Department of Education Come With Wealth of Knowledge and Experience

By Beth Akers | Michael Brickman
Podcast
February 14, 2025
The 74

Class Disrupted: How AI is Democratizing Access to Expertise in Education

By John Bailey

Foreign and Defense Policy

Post
February 14, 2025
AEIdeas

Trump’s “Denuclearization” Is a Nonstarter – But There Is a Future for Arms Control

By Kyle Balzer
Op-Ed
February 14, 2025
Breaking Defense

DOGE or Be DOGE’d: The Army Needs to Preemptively Start Cutting

By John G. Ferrari

Health Care

Multimedia
February 14, 2025
Cato Institute

Think Bigger: Meaningful Health Reform — Panel 2: Health Reforms that Meet the Need

By David Hyman
Post
February 13, 2025
AEIdeas

A Trumpian Budgetary Fog

By James C. Capretta

Politics and Public Opinion

Op-Ed
February 14, 2025
Commentary

They Just Don’t Get It

By Matthew Continetti
Article
February 13, 2025
Civitas

The Competing Tensions in America’s Middle East Policy

By John Yoo

Opportunity and Social Mobility

Post
February 14, 2025
AEIdeas

The Difference Between Addressing Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Theory and Practice

By Matt Weidinger
Article
February 14, 2025
Vox EU

Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers

By Bruce D. Meyer | Jeehoon Han | James X. Sullivan

Society and Culture

Podcast
February 16, 2025
National Affairs

Putting Families First: Why Conservatives Need a New Technology Agenda

By Dan Wiser | Howe Whitman | Jon Askonas
Multimedia
February 12, 2025

Mountain Memories: A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. And Robert P. George

By Robert P. George | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Laura Laurent

Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

Podcast
February 16, 2025
National Affairs

Putting Families First: Why Conservatives Need a New Technology Agenda

By Dan Wiser | Howe Whitman | Jon Askonas
Article
February 14, 2025
City Journal

This Silent Plane Just Made History

By Will Rinehart

Research Products

Report
February 10, 2025
Hudson Institute

Required to Fail | Beyond Documents: Accelerating Joint Advantage through Direct Resourcing and Experimentation

By William C. Greenwalt | Dan Patt
Report
February 10, 2025
Aspen Institute

Policy Options to Address Consolidation in Healthcare Provider Markets

By Benedic N. Ippolito
Report
February 10, 2025
Institute for Family Studies

For Better: Four Proven Ways to a Strong and Stable Marriage

By Brad Wilcox | Jason S. Carroll | Jeffrey P. Dew
Working Paper
February 10, 2025
National Bureau of Economic Research

Dynamic Scoring: A Progress Report on Why, When, and How

By R. Glenn Hubbard | Douglas Elmendorf | Heidi Williams
Report
February 07, 2025

How Congress Lost, Part V: Politics and Presidential Power Under Adams and Jefferson, 1797–1809

By Jay Cost
Report
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February 06, 2025
American Enterprise Institute

The Woebegone 118th Congress

By Philip Wallach
Working Paper
February 05, 2025
AEI Economic Policy Working Paper Series

A Mandatory High Tax Exclusion for GILTI

By Kyle Pomerleau
Report
February 05, 2025
Social Science Research Network

The Innovation Imperative: Crossing the Valley of Death

By Brian J. Miller | Ted Cho
Report
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February 05, 2025
State of the Nation Project

State of the Nation

By Michael R. Strain | Frederick M. Hess | Scott Winship
Report
February 04, 2025
AEIdeas

AEI Housing Market Indicators, January 2025

By Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Sissi Li

Articles & Op-Eds

Op-Ed
February 12, 2025

The Collapse of Offshore Wind Power Is Only the Beginning

The National Interest
The collapse of offshore wind power is only the first step in showing why the green energy transition is not competitive in a free market.
By Benjamin Zycher
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Op-Ed
February 06, 2025
Bloomberg Opinion

Trump Should Learn from Helsinki, Not Yalta, on Foreign Policy

By Hal Brands
Op-Ed
February 04, 2025
The Bulwark

Democrats Have to Learn to Love Free Trade Again

By Dalibor Rohac
Op-Ed
February 04, 2025
Education Next

Ugly NAEP Results Are a Reminder That Schools Have Lost the Plot

By Frederick M. Hess

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January 28, 2025

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What The Hell Podcast
February 13, 2025

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February 06, 2025

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February 05, 2025

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January 22, 2025

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Political Economy Podcast
February 11, 2025

Andrew Leigh: An Economist’s Guide to Human History

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