Broken-windows arrests in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, have all declined more than 77 percent since 2013. Analyzing comprehensive datasets of arrests, Charles Murray reveals the scope and impact of more lenient policing in America’s largest cities.
Funding for government-supported job training has been declining for decades, while we continue to struggle to identify what programs work. In a new AEI report, Brent Orrell, Peter Mueser, and Kenneth Troske document funding patterns, estimate effectiveness, and propose reforms that can ensure government-supported programs deliver results. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a perfect tool to sow disinformation and mistrust, allowing adversaries to easily create fake images, documents, and videos. Nonetheless, Elisabeth Braw argues that AI’s greatest potential may be as a defense against this gray-zone aggression. How has Chinese global investment rebounded from the disruptions of COVID-19? Derek Scissors details the patterns of Chinese activity in 2023, while warning that US companies remain dangerously overinvested in China itself. Is conservatism, with all its emphasis on restraint and tradition, to blame for the right’s political failures? Should American conservatives adopt more radical political alternatives? Writing against its critics, Christine Rosen shows why our “technology-saturated” and utopia-hungry society needs conservatism’s attentiveness to the messy reality of human nature more than ever. |
