By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

Federal policy can significantly alter drugmakers’ incentives, yet there is substantial debate about how various proposals will affect the development of new drugs. At this event, experts will ...

The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...

As laboratories dismiss staff and halt clinical trials, and as countries like France actively recruit American scientists, it’s worth questioning whether short-term budgetary gains justify potentially ...

The AEI Economics Working Paper series is intended to make preliminary research findings by AEI scholars available for discussion prior to publication. Resident Scholar Stan Veuger is editor of ...

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

An administration and Congress focused on government efficiency may want to tackle the student loan nonpayment crisis before it is too late.

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A scholarly debate over the meaning of the First Amendment’s Press Clause could influence the Associated Press’s battle against the Trump administration for access to the Oval Office and Air Force One ...

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There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...