Key Points Average US student assessment scores appear to tell a simple story: Performance rose through the 2000s, plateaued during the 2010s, and then declined sharply during the pandemic. But ...

Chinese chip manufacturing has attracted much attention in the West, but Beijing’s industrial policy has also placed it in the lead of other electronics component manufacturing. The West risks ...

A comprehensive, insightful assessment of the profound military, economic, political, and security implications of the Ukraine conflict, a war with far-reaching consequences for Europe and the ...

Pollsters have been busy in recent weeks laying a public opinion foundation for Donald Trump’s second term. The new data support a truism: Americans aren’t ideologues. They want significant ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors, including Trump 1.0 ...

China’s AI ambitions have long been hamstrung by a critical weakness: access to high-end computing hardware. US export controls have effectively cut Beijing off from the most advanced AI chips ...

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered a wholesale change in the federal government’s immigration policies. Trump declared that almost four years of unrestricted and illegal ...

On January 15, AEI’s Kori Schake hosted a discussion with former Secretary of the US Air Force Heather Wilson and former Representative Mike Rogers on the delicate balance of the civil-military ...

Whatever the future advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, the most fervent advocates of universal basic income (UBI) aren’t waiting to find out if the machines really will take all ...

Farm interest groups are deeply concerned that unilateral actions by the new Trump adminis­tration to substantially increase tariffs on all or many imports from major trading partners could harm ...

Global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and outpaced world population growth between 1961 and 2022 ...