Seattle's new heavily subsidized affordable housing policies are making homeownership less attainable for low-income families. A new case study from Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter reveals this progressive policy failure while showing why other cities should still emulate Seattle's earlier embrace of low-rise multifamily zoning.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced Japanese policymakers to reevaluate their post–World War II defense taboos. Dan Blumenthal explains the unprecedented steps Japan is now taking to respond to China's increasingly nuclear threat.

The gig economy is reshaping the US workforce, as more than 39 percent of US workers now engage in some kind of nontraditional work. In a new AEI report, Liya Palagashvili documents the shape of this transformation, explaining why policymakers should not rush to reclassify all these workers as employees.

During the 2020 election, Joe Biden promised to end Donald Trump's protectionism. Nonetheless, Joseph Glauber demonstrates how the Biden administration's emphasis on social and environmental responsibility is continuing to hobble US agriculture producers' much-needed access to foreign markets.

Ideological activists are distorting scholarship on child welfare policies by demanding that "lived experience" supplant data-driven research, warns Naomi Schaefer Riley. Left unchecked, their insistence on the inherently racist character of child protective services and foster care will increasingly shape the federal government's priorities.