China’s AI ambitions have long been hamstrung by a critical weakness: access to high-end computing hardware. US export controls have effectively cut Beijing off from the most advanced AI chips ...

Pollsters have been busy in recent weeks laying a public opinion foundation for Donald Trump’s second term. The new data support a truism: Americans aren’t ideologues. They want significant ...

Key Points Average US student assessment scores appear to tell a simple story: Performance rose through the 2000s, plateaued during the 2010s, and then declined sharply during the pandemic. But ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors, including Trump 1.0 ...

President-elect Trump set off a firestorm recently when he suggested that the United States might retake the Panama Canal. Trump began by claiming that the fees Panama was charging US shippers for ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered a wholesale change in the federal government’s immigration policies. Trump declared that almost four years of unrestricted and illegal ...

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending ...

Many who follow Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have come to the same conclusion: Russia can defeat Ukraine with its “incredible” strength. However, Russia is much weaker than even many in the ...

Farm interest groups are deeply concerned that unilateral actions by the new Trump adminis­tration to substantially increase tariffs on all or many imports from major trading partners could harm ...

There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let me first start with the process of budgeting, that process of drafting a plan for raising revenue ...

Whatever the future advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, the most fervent advocates of universal basic income (UBI) aren’t waiting to find out if the machines really will take all ...

On January 15, AEI’s Kori Schake hosted a discussion with former Secretary of the US Air Force Heather Wilson and former Representative Mike Rogers on the delicate balance of the civil-military ...