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(ILO) International Labor Organization: Returning to the core business of defending workers (AEI)

Danielle Pletka, Brett D. Schaefer The focus of the International Labor Organization should be to champion the “freedom of workers to flourish.” https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/international-labor-organization-returning-to-the-core-business-of-defending-workers/

Uncategorized March 2, 2021

(USA/Iran) The real roots of Iranian anti-Americanism (AEI, The National Interest)

Michael Rubin The 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran shocked not only Americans but also the world. It was an unprecedented event. As...

Uncategorized February 28, 2021

(USA) How the rise of ‘citizen voice’ increased infrastructure costs: My long-read Q&A with Leah Brooks (AEI)

James Pethokoukis The cost of building interstate highways almost tripled between 1960 and 1980. Why was this the case? And is it possible for the...

Uncategorized February 27, 2021

(USA) Tax bias and the child and dependent care tax credit (AEI)

Kyle Pomerleau Last month, Senator Mitt Romney introduced a proposal to enact a “child allowance,” a monthly payment to households with children. https://www.aei.org/economics/tax-bias-and-the-child-and-dependent-care-tax-credit/

Uncategorized February 27, 2021

(USA) How Biden’s Jamal Khashoggi report could backfire (AEI)

Michael Rubin The Biden administration today fulfilled its pledge to release an unclassified version of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report on Saudi Arabia’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/how-bidens-jamal-khashoggi-report-could-backfire/

Uncategorized February 27, 2021

(USA) When it comes to conspiracy theories, education matters (AEI)

Daniel A. Cox Political conspiracies are nothing new, but a new crop of wild claims and falsehoods have become prominent in the Republican Party. https://www.aei.org/articles/when-it-comes-to-conspiracy-theories-education-matters/

Uncategorized February 27, 2021

(USA) After the apocalypse: Defense spending (AEI)

Mackenzie Eaglen From an ongoing pandemic to deadly winter storms to rising poverty, Americans are facing myriad threats to their everyday security. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/after-the-apocalypse-defense-spending/

Uncategorized February 26, 2021

(USA) New research on the Paycheck Protection Program (AEI)

Michael R. Strain The Paycheck Protection Program was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession https://www.aei.org/economics/new-research-on-the-paycheck-protection-program/

Uncategorized February 26, 2021

(USA) $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is latest example of ‘never letting a serious crisis go to waste’ (AEI)

Matt Weidinger Rahm Emanuel, as chief of staff to President-elect Obama, famously said in late 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to...

Uncategorized February 26, 2021

(USA) Competing in time: Ensuring capability advantage and mission success through adaptable resource allocation (AEI)

William C. Greenwalt, Dan Patt The keystone of the Department of Defense’s institutional architecture is not acquisition, but rather the budgeting process. This governs its ability...

Uncategorized February 26, 2021

(Germany/USA/China) Germany is a flashpoint in the US-China cold war (AEI)

Hal Brands As goes Germany, so goes Europe — and that’s a real challenge for the U.S. During the Cold War, West Germany was America’s...