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Tariffs Are Never a Good Idea. Those on Aluminum Are Especially Bad. Aluminum prices are up 59% from a year ago, and America’s 10%...

Aluminum prices are up 59% from a year ago, and America’s 10% tariffs on the metal are not relieving any headaches at beer and non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers. The tariffs were originally put...

$3.5T Spending Bill Would Lavish Hundreds of Billions on Nanny State Education (Lindsey M. Burke, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation)

The massive, unprecedented $3.5 trillion spending bill making its way through Congress includes education spending on an equally unprecedented scale. In all, the plan would...

Critical Race Theory Will Destroy the Fabric of Our Military (John Venable, Heritage Foundation)

In just 10 words, Napoleon captured perhaps the most important element for leading a team to success: "The moral is to the physical as...

Australia’s path for reopening to the world (Michael Shoebridge, The Strategist)

Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton’s flight path on the way to Washington for the annual AUSMIN meeting with their American counterparts provides...

Australia must prepare as China’s coercive capabilities draw closer (Malcolm Davis, The Strategist)

In a recent Lowy Institute paper, the Center for New American Security’s Thomas Shugart warns that China is building up its military capacity to coerce...

Ensuring the ADF can make a rapid transition to war (Emily Chapman, The Strategist)

In 2019, Exercise Talisman Sabre ended with an airdrop of 26 tonnes of humanitarian assistance into Shoalwater Bay Training Area. In 2021, the same...

New beginnings: Rethinking business and trade in an era of strategic clarity and rolling disruption (John Coyne, Gill Savage and Michael Shoebridge, ASPI)

This special report considers the relationship between our business and trade positioning in the context of the impacts of Covid, natural disasters and the...

Technology competition: We need more than just strategy (Megan Lamberth and Martijn Rasser, CNAS)

America is embroiled in a challenge unseen in decades: a contest with a formidable and resourceful opponent whose geostrategic ambitions are at odds with...

Neoliberals, Anti-imperialists, and the China Question (Van Jackson, CNAS)

Does China’s more ambitious foreign policy and bid for “national rejuvenation” come at the expense of American hegemony? It’s a question where some neoliberals...

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