Over 90 percent of the $68 billion in aid the US has provided to Ukraine gets spent in America to replace weapon systems and increase our defense industrial base. Marc A. Thiessen documents the exact geography of these investments with an interactive map to show lawmakers how workers and firms across the country are benefiting from these investments.

After being stopped by federal courts and Congress, progressives are now trying to use litigation against energy companies in state courts to implement their climate agenda. Adam J. White, writing with former Attorney General William P. Barr, argues that the Supreme Court must not allow national policy to be dictated by this unconstitutional and undemocratic end around.

How successful was Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty? In the Journal of Political Economy, Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, and Jeff Larimore develop a new poverty metric to show that while the US has made tremendous progress in fighting absolute poverty, dependency on government welfare programs remains significant.

Since October 7, UN agencies and officials—from the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza to Secretary General António Guterres—have repeatedly criticized Israel while minimizing and excusing Hamas's responsibility. Danielle Pletka urges the US to rethink its funding for this organization that does nothing to serve American interests.

The emergence of artificial intelligence presents our society with new opportunities but also profound questions about the ends of this new technology. M. Anthony Mills suggests that President Joe Biden, instead of indulging his regulatory reflex, should emulate President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics, helmed by AEI scholar Leon Kass, to focus the policymaking process on moral reflection and public deliberation.