The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have featured a torrent of education activity. President Trump moved to abolish the US Department of Education, slashing its workforce ...

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On April 23, AEI hosted a collaborative event with the Chautauqua Institution and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia to discuss American civic culture as it affects our ...

The United States leads the world in artificial intelligence, but it’s not guaranteed to stay there. The bottleneck isn’t talent, ideas, or capital—it’s electricity. Via Adobe Stock.

Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire ...

President Trump has made it clear that he intends to take control of the independent agencies that regulate large portions of the US economy. There are about 19 of these agencies, and include the ...

Days after taking office for a second time, President Trump issued an executive order for a homeland missile defense system, dubbed Iron Dome for America. Unlike Israel’s Iron Dome, which ...

Teach For America is one of the most influential educational organizations of the past few decades. Starting 35 years ago as an undergraduate thesis, TFA’s aim was to bring high-performing ...

The 2024 American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, went above and beyond providing compensation for losses of equipment, structures, and roads by including $10 billion for farmers whose ...

AEI Senior Fellow James C. Capretta took part in the Third Annual Health Solutions Summit hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget to discuss the Medicare program and its ...

It is Earth Day 2025, the central religious holiday of the environmental left, and the theme this year is “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.” That “TM” trademark symbol is both a reality and a joke.

Over at The Dispatch, AEI Senior Fellow Jonah Goldberg recently praised Frédéric Bastiat’s classic essay, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen.” Goldberg cited the piece to ...