AEI’s legal scholars are providing rigorous analysis drawn from our nation’s founding principles on the most important questions of our day—from bounds of the administrative state to the fairness of our system of justice. In a new profile of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Adam J. White warns that her aggressive antitrust enforcement is eroding regulatory self-restraint, even as it loses in the courts.

And Jack Landman Goldsmith, who joined AEI in January, brings his experience in the Justice Department to bear on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump for the events of January 6. Goldsmith argues that the Supreme Court should not indulge Smith’s unprecedented attempt to rush the case to trial before the election.

In 2020, playwright Michael R. Jackson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama by challenging conventional depictions of race on stage in his musical A Strange Loop. In a profile for The Atlantic, Thomas Chatterton Williams explores how Jackson has reckoned with and responded to the threat identity politics poses to artistic integrity.

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired his commanding general, Valerii Zaluzhny, a popular general who had led the war effort since the invasion. Kori Schake assesses the costs and consequences of this decision, most importantly for the broader state of civil-military relations in Ukraine.

The United States’ dependence on Taiwan for critical inputs, such as semiconductors, undermines the credibility of our deterrence against China. In a new AEI report, John G. Ferrari and Mark Rosenblatt document these supply-chain vulnerabilities and propose solutions.