Tag: AEI

(USA/Social Media) Social media censorship: Healing divisions or fomenting divides? (AEI)

Bronwyn Howell For many years, people hoped the internet would become the ultimate communications platform, freeing people from barriers imposed by cost and geography and...

(USA/Worker Transitions) The search for stability: A review of worker transitions (AEI)

Rachel Lipson, David Deming, Jerren Chang, Jacob Greenspon, Stephanie Nussbaum, and Mariano Parro Even before the pandemic, the US economy faced decades of structural and technological changes,...

(USA/Climate Change) Biden’s ‘green jobs’ mirage (AEI)

Brent Orrell, Mason M. Bishop President Biden finished his whirlwind first week in office with an executive order to tackle climate change. https://www.aei.org/articles/bidens-green-jobs-mirage/

(USA/Unemployment System/Technology) The unemployment system is broken. Technology alone won’t fix it (AEI)

Brent Orrell Responding to the horror stories of millions of jobless Americans struggling, and often failing, to register for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, Senator...

(USA/George Shultz) George Shultz’s statesmanship began with good government at home (AEI)

Adam J. White When George Shultz passed away last week, America lost one of the 20th Century’s greatest statesmen. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/george-shultzs-statesmanship-began-with-good-government-at-home/

(Populism) What’s been the historical impact of populism on economies and political systems? (AEI)

James Pethokoukis Donald Trump is gone, but his populism lives on. It’s not just that President Biden, like his predecessor, has signed a “Buy American” executive order...

(USA/Politics) Legislators feel caught in a primaries trap (AEI)

Kevin R. Kosar What is next for Donald Trump? There are reports that the former president is intending to play a role in the 2022...

(USA/China) China, unquarantined (AEI)

Dan Blumenthal, Nicholas Eberstadt For decades, the United States has pursued a bipartisan strategy to engage China and enmesh it in the free world’s great webs of...

(USA/Politics) McConnell’s choice is emblematic of the GOP’s rot (AEI)

Jonah Goldberg The Republican Party is broken. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/mcconnells-choice-is-emblematic-of-the-gops-rot/

(USA/Great Recession/Recovery) The recovery from the Great Recession: A long, evolving expansion (AEI)

Michael R. Strain, Jay C. Shambaugh Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/the-recovery-from-the-great-recession-a-long-evolving-expansion/

(WHO/China) The WHO’s probe into Wuhan needs a dose of common sense (AEI)

Paul Wolfowitz Bill Drexel The WHO’s findings after their probe into COVID’s origins in Wuhan are rightly making a stir — not because of any credible insights, but because of the implausible public...

(USA/Economy) How many jobs will Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus plan create?

Matt Weidinger Compared with the abundant attention focused on tens of millions of stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, and child allowances that Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan would provide, the...

(USA/Politics) After the ballots are counted: Conspiracies, political violence, and American exceptionalism (AEI)

Daniel A. Cox Americans are sharply divided over the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Nearly all Democrats (98 percent) and roughly three-quarters (73 percent) of...

(Arms Control) Arms control among rivals (AEI)

John Maurer After decades of small wars and counterinsurgency, the United States is refocusing on great power rivalry with China and Russia. This rivalry has...

(USA/Yemen) Biden’s Yemen policy won’t work any better than Trump’s (AEI)

Danielle Pletka The Biden administration has announced an end for US support to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s operations in Yemen, just as it’s also...

(USA/Economy) Larry Summers is right on the economy for the wrong reason (AEI)

Desmond Lachman Larry Summers has to be admired for the courage of his convictions to rail against President Joe Biden’s proposed budget stimulus package. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/larry-summers-is-right-on-the-economy-for-the-wrong-reason/