Is aid to Ukraine harming US military preparedness? Kori Schake explains that cutting off aid to Ukraine will do nothing to solve the deeper problem of decades of underinvestment in production capacity. “America reaped a peace dividend after the Cold War, then continued to take one even as the world grew more dangerous.”
The Western-imposed price cap on Russian oil has created huge arbitrage opportunities for firms willing to continue selling Russian oil to countries not participating in sanctions. In a new AEI report, Elisabeth Braw documents this behavior and argues that war-profiteering firms should be encouraged to donate to Ukrainian reconstruction. Many of the 2,000 volumes of Richard Nixon’s personal library bear the marks of the president’s active reading: underlines, circles, squares, and brackets in pen. Andrew Ferguson plumbs this marginalia to reveal what it says about Nixon’s brilliant but troubled mind. Timothy P. Carney has criticisms for both members of the Trump-Pence administration. He takes Donald Trump to task for turning his back on pro-life positions and points out to Mike Pence that conservatism and populism are not incompatible. Ozempic and similar drugs are in high demand to treat obesity and diabetes as evidence of their clinical benefits mounts. In a new AEI Economic Perspectives report, Benedic N. Ippolito and Joseph F. Levy reveal these drugs’ true costs for insurers and consumers. |
