Event Summary On February 2, AEI convened a conference with the Ukrainian Institute of the Future on the future of Ukraine, opportunities for a peaceful end to the conflict with Russia, and the ...

That the stock market is holding up well now despite the gathering storm clouds for the US and world economies is reminiscent of the stock market’s robust performance in the run-up to the 2020 ...

President Trump's long-standing chase for deals with China has pushed the US to avoid hard choices, only to get burned later.

The new limits on graduate student borrowing enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) mark a decisive shift away from the era of effectively unlimited federal lending. To understand why, it ...

Requirements intended to promote competition in contracting have made the performance of government worse, not better. Using federal procurement of computer systems as his model, the author shows the ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

President Donald Trump’s second first 100 days have already felt like being trapped inside a Russian novel—and we’re barely underway. Here’s my take on what we’ve seen in K-12. Be forewarned, you’ll ...

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army [Artesh-e Jomhouri-ye Eslami-ye Iran] and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e ...

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments have imposed a complex set of embargoes and sanctions on Russia’s oil industry. While the US and its allies have long used ...