Former UN Amb. Nikki Haley spoke at AEI on Tuesday, June 27, on the future of US-China policy. In conversation with Zack Cooper as part of AEI's "New China Playbook" project, Amb. Haley laid out her vision for confronting the threat from Communist China and answered questions on the role of allies, lessons from Ukraine, and her approach to defending Taiwan.

Writing in the MIT Technology Review, Chris Miller sheds light on a little-known technology that has been instrumental to making semiconductor chips. Miller explains how photolithography—using focused light to print circuits on chips—enabled the rise of mass-produced semiconductors and why it will be so important to their future. 

How can we account for Republican underperformance in the 2022 midterms, especially in key Senate races? In a new AEI report, Ruy Teixeira and Nate Moore examine last year's US Senate race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. Breaking down both campaigns' strengths and weaknesses, Teixeira and Moore reveal lessons both parties need to learn for 2024.

Some states, such as California and Illinois, have adopted policies requiring employers to contribute automatic payroll deductions into individual retirement accounts for employees. Sita Nataraj Slavov and her coauthors investigate firms' responses to these policies in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.

In his latest set of data tools, Charles Murray provides new resources for studying the complex relationships among crime, demographics, and place. His compilation of the complete arrest records from New York City; Washington, DC; and Los Angeles for much of the 2000s, cross-referenced with countless other variables, is an invaluable resource for scholars, analysts, and policymakers.