Elisabeth Braw warns that new espionage legislation approved by China's National People's Congress "makes it extremely dangerous for Western businesses to remain" in the country. Braw explains why "China's new legislation is emphatically extinguishing any remaining hopes" of Western businesses that they could stay above the fray in the strategic competition with China.

In 2003, a federal law created health savings accounts, which consumers can use to pay for qualified medical expenses. James C. Capretta reflects on the policy's success in attracting enrollees and its struggle in lowering prices over the past two decades.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former Sens. Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) argue that President Joe Biden has transformed the American regulatory landscape to such an extent that "it could smother America's productivity, wages and living standards" in the long term. Gramm and Toomey outline the means by which President Biden's administration is forging "an iron net of regulation" across the American economy.

According to Klon Kitchen, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan's April 18 congressional testimony was just the latest indication of the FTC's growing disregard for American economic and national security concerns abroad. "The FTC's recent actions threaten to undermine U.S. interests and empower the [People's Republic of China]," writes Kitchen.

In the latest post from AEI's Survey Center on American Life, Daniel A. Cox and Phil Jones investigate the relationship between alternative sexual orientations and political views, which appear to be strongly correlated. Using Survey Center data, Cox and Jones test whether being politically liberal makes people "more likely to claim an LGBTQ identity."