Charles Murray shares the latest data tool in a series he has launched to help researchers and the public tackle the most profound questions facing American society. Compiling years of American Community Survey data, his publication reveals divergences in family structures across the entire United States. “To my knowledge, you won’t find comparable numbers anywhere else,” writes Murray.

Is massive US aid to Middle Eastern countries necessary in our new era of great-power rivalry? As America’s global challenges change, Danielle Pletka reassesses past positions and questions whether regional powers such as Egypt and Israel still need billions of dollars in American assistance.

On April 2, OPEC+ announced a surprise oil production cut to increase prices. Benjamin Zycher argues this decision exposes the fatal flaw in the Biden administration’s “green” energy policy that suppresses domestic oil production while asking foreign producers for lower prices.

According to Gary J. Schmitt and Joseph M. Bessette, Congress, not the vice president, has the authority to settle disputes over Electoral College votes. In a new AEI report, Schmitt and Bessette trace the constitutional precedents of this authority back to the founding and affirm its strengthening by the recent Electoral Count Act.

In the latest report from AEI’s Conservative Education Reform Network, Robert Manzer identifies university accreditors’ long-standing role in illiberalism’s rise on campuses. He outlines several ways policymakers can challenge accreditors that pressure academic institutions to conform to illiberal agendas.