In 2016, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona state legislature launched a first-of-its-kind higher education reform: a mandate to the state’s (and America’s) largest public university to establish ...

In wishing for a weak dollar, Trump should be careful about that for what he wishes. The economic policy and geopolitical course on which he is embarked is all too likely to produce an excessively ...

AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford S. AsnessManaging ...

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In The Real Retirement Crisis: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About the US Retirement System Is Wrong, Andrew G. Biggs brings economic insights and hard data to bear on America’s retirement savings ...

American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar awarded renowned historian and professor of history emeritus at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood, the highest honor bestowed by the Institute, on ...

Evidence shows that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), like other means-tested programs, reduces employment levels among those eligible. Work requirements in SNAP are one tool to ...

“Renewable” electricity — predominantly wind and solar power — is all the rage, described by numerous commentators, politicians, pundits, journalists, and other such “experts” as cost-competitive, ...

The US agricultural sector—especially farms producing labor-intensive crops such as fruits, vegetables, and horticultural products—relies on unauthorized immigrants to perform many seasonal and ...

Imagine a scenario in which, a year or two or three from now, the world is convulsed by war from Europe to the Pacific. The idea isn’t as absurd as you may think. Not in decades has the US faced such ...

The United States is leading the world into a new era of space activity and enjoys a substantial economic and military advantage in space, despite adversary advances in counterspace weapons that hold ...

In 1991 Nobel economist Milton Friedman (pictured above giving a talk at AEI, exact year unknown) was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning drug reporter Randy Paige on “America’s Drug Forum,” a national ...