The American Enterprise Institute’s inaugural 1789 Fellowship will provide 15 graduate students and early career professionals the opportunity to study political theory and public policy with ...

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 ...

Why do so many of President Trump’s multitudinous executive orders fly in the face of extant legal principles? Are they the result of incompetence? Is the administration laying the groundwork ...

As Generation Z is aging into adulthood, a plethora of stories have asserted that “Gen Z is the Least Religious Generation,” with some writers suggesting that this could be a net positive for ...

Five years ago, President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, stood all but alone against the Democratic drive for student loan forgiveness. The conventional wisdom at the time was ...

Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s metaphor of the states as “laboratories” for policy experiments is perhaps the most familiar and clichéd image of federalism. Contrary to common belief, however ...

My fellow tech policy enthusiasts, our long national nightmare is over. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit brought an end to the decade-long fight over net neutrality by ...

Here’s Tim Worstall writing in Forbes today (“Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Wrong Here – Just Paying Women More Won’t Close Gender Pay Gap“), emphasis added: The idea that we can close ...

In mid-March, the Biden administration declared war on charter schools. In an announcement that blindsided leading charter school advocates, the Department of Education proposed a raft of new ...

Last November, President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper entitled “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global ...

The share of American men and women who are married today is at a record low: 45 percent. That’s one of the headlines emerging from the 2022 American Family Survey (AFS), out this week from ...

Todd Harrison’s chapter from Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World (American Enterprise Institute, 2025), edited by Mackenzie Eaglen. To download ...