The United States leads the world in artificial intelligence, but it’s not guaranteed to stay there. The bottleneck isn’t talent, ideas, or capital—it’s electricity. Via Adobe Stock.

President Trump has made it clear that he intends to take control of the independent agencies that regulate large portions of the US economy. There are about 19 of these agencies, and include the ...

When policy analysts argue that Ukraine should stop fighting because it cannot realistically hope to repel Russia and reclaim its occupied territories, they often implicitly or explicitly ...

The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon Musk and his erstwhile partner, Vivek Ramaswamy, gestured toward some of ...

The 2024 American Relief Act, a disaster aid initiative, went above and beyond providing compensation for losses of equipment, structures, and roads by including $10 billion for farmers whose ...

Over at The Dispatch, AEI Senior Fellow Jonah Goldberg recently praised Frédéric Bastiat’s classic essay, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen.” Goldberg cited the piece to ...

Can you improve your health without obsessing about it? I’ve been, well, obsessing about this question as I continue to spend more time and mindshare in the world of healthy aging evangelists ...

What if the new Cold War with China turns hot? Just asking questions. China’s rise, decline, or potential for conflict is often clouded by propaganda and oversimplification. This episode of ...

It is Earth Day 2025, the central religious holiday of the environmental left, and the theme this year is “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.” That “TM” trademark symbol is both a reality and a joke.

Over the past several months, several commentators have referred to tariffs as a consumption tax (here, here, and here). There is a certain intuition behind this—an excise tax is levied on the ...

On April 2, 2025, the Trump administration announced new “reciprocal tariffs” on imports from most trading partners, imposing a baseline 10 percent tariff on all countries, with higher rates ...

“America First” is more than a slogan—it’s a guiding principle. For the Trump administration, it should guide policy across the board, including in the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies.