When the science police don't understand the science they are policing ...

A healthy democracy depends on those same habits: patience, attention, and stewardship. A society that forgets how to slow down—how to gather, deliberate, and give thanks—risks losing the capacity for ...

France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and ...

Rather than asking, "What's your p(doom)?" we should be asking, "Under what conditions does AI risk increase or decrease?" ...

History suggests diffusion matters as much as invention. Unlike earlier ”general-purpose technologies” that took decades to lift growth, early evidence suggests AI’s lag may be shorter. If so, Walmart ...

Claims that a race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will prove deeply destabilizing are common among technologists and parts of the public policy community, even if it remains debatable ...

Australia previous set and missed impossible targets for emissions reduction. The outcome for the 2035 emissions reduction targets will inevitably be the same as for the 2020 targets — a big miss. As ...

On September 16, 2025, the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the purpose and use of the tax-exempt status widespread in the hospital sector. In this ...

Baseball’s robot umpires may look like a narrow sports experiment. In fact, they are a parable for the economy at large: Technology pares back one craft, redistributes value, and leaves the real ...

The illegal vaping market now largely fills the demand from millions seeking safer cigarette substitutes. The FDA should let American businesses do that job.

AEI scholars not only engage in research that focuses on today’s most critical challenges but also look ahead to ideas and issues that have yet to be widely recognized. AEI scholars pursue innovative, ...