AEI This Week
Mar 28, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
We need a hard pause, followed by a soft start
 
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The purpose of our strategy should be to create a sustainable way to live with the virus, not secure its total defeat, writes Yuval Levin.
 
 
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The medical capacity gap is our economic problem
 
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Instead of prematurely reversing social distancing, the country needs a realistic plan to make further progress on medical readiness. The surest path to restoring economic health will be to slow the spread of the virus and ensure that our health care system is not overwhelmed, explains James Capretta.
 
 
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The COVID-19 relief bill’s self-defeating complexity
 
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Given all the complexities and special interest provisions written into this law, millions are sure to sink long before anyone can figure out how to make the loans in this rescue package, writes Paul Kupiec.
 
 
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We don’t have to destroy the Constitution to take on coronavirus
 
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Even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Congress shouldn’t concede more power to Donald Trump (or any other president). That’s the last thing we need, explains Gregory Weiner.
 
 
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AEI President Robert Doar on America’s response to the coronavirus
 
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In times of national crisis, how do American institutions respond? AEI President Robert Doar joined "Banter" this week to discuss the work AEI is doing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on his own experience serving in New York's government in the years following the attacks of September 11.
 
 
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The evolution of the revolution: The changing nature of Iran’s Axis of Resistance
 
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For the first two to three decades after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian-led “Axis of Resistance” was little more than rhetoric, ascribing greater unity of effort to an amalgam of states, semi-states, and non-state actors that opposed the Middle Eastern status quo than was ever the reality, writes Kenneth Pollack.
 
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