Any path for CBD to be legally sold and added to food products should be based on a clear and efficient regulatory process and sound science, writes Scott Gottlieb. There is an immediate solution: Approve the sale of some CBD products, while constructing a framework for their safe use.
President Donald Trump's claim that the US armed forces are “almost totally rebuilt" is unfortunately not true, explain Rick Berger and Gary Schmitt. The current budget agreement may avoid worst-case scenarios, but it falls short of the funding needed to carry out the National Defense Strategy.
Desmond Lachman lists three external-related reasons that could soon force the Federal Reserve to move to a looser monetary policy: the US-China trade war, the United Kingdom's likely sterling crisis, and Europe's approaching recession.
The relationship between fertility and gender equality is more complicated than many realize. Childbearing may fall as equality is first embraced, but the full incorporation of egalitarian policies and norms may subsequently bring fertility back up, write W. Bradford Wilcox, Lyman Stone, and Laurie DeRose.
We've wound up with a higher education industry with richly compensated leaders who focus on revenues, rankings, and moral posturing while remaining unaccountable and absent, argues Frederick Hess.
"Faces of Policy" is a docuseries produced by the American Enterprise Institute, in which our scholars explore how public policy decisions affect real people. In the inaugural series, Dr. Sally Satel interviews former opioid addicts about the factors that led to their addiction, what steps helped them overcome it, and the tangible impact different proposed policies would have on their lives.
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