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Ending the Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping

March 2, 2024

Since November, Houthi attacks have disrupted the 12 percent of global shipping that goes through the Red Sea. In a new AEI report, Kenneth M. Pollack and other Middle East experts explain what it will take to end this threat.

 

 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to win a third successive term in office in this year’s elections. While there are ugly aspects to his Hindu nationalism, Sadanand Dhume argues there is no danger Modi will turn India into an Iran-like theocracy.

 

At the end of February, the war in Ukraine entered its third year. Leon Aron assesses the key challenges for Russia, Ukraine, and the West over the next year of fighting and analyzes the long-term outlook.

 

To date, 21 Republican congressmen have announced their retirement from the House of Representatives. Kevin R. Kosar surveys the losses and analyzes what this says about the broader health of the Republican Party in Congress.

 

AEI’s Banter podcast has been relaunched as One on One with Robert Doar, with interviews with scholars from across the Institute on the most pressing issues. On one of the first episodes, Doar talks with Matthew Continetti about the current political landscape leading into the presidential election.

Program Evaluation as a Strategic Instrument for Reforming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the severe shortcomings of the United States’ public health establishment, especially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which suffered from severe operational inefficiencies and poor leadership as it provided inconsistent and often unscientific guidance. But despite this widespread criticism, neither the presidency nor Congress have done anything to address these structural shortcomings. In a new working paper, Brian J. Miller and several other public health experts provide a blueprint to reform the CDC by comprehensively auditing its wide scope of programs and funding. They reveal over $600 million in spending and dozens of programs that do not contribute to the CDC’s foundational public health domains: communicable diseases, epidemiological response, and public health preparedness and response. By using the appropriations process to address these items, Congress can refocus the CDC on these core responsibilities and better prepare it for the next public health crisis.

 

 

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Without an agenda for some sort of trade promotion, Washington will lose ground to Beijing’s initiatives, handicap the U.S. in the contest for global political influence, and see American security erode.

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