AEI This Week
Apr 18, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Public health principles for a phased reopening during COVID-19: Guidance for governors
 
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This report provides an assessment of the risk of COVID-19 transmission in a variety of organizations and settings that have been closed. Scott Gottlieb and other authors outline steps to reduce potential transmission during the reopening of these organizations and settings, building on the proposed phased approach from “National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening.”
 
 
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Why this pandemic is an indictment of socialized medicine
 
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America’s system of private medicine has left us far better positioned for today’s crisis than other nations, writes Marc Thiessen.
 
 
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Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
 
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Jason Delisle explains that policymakers should embrace our existing, well-functioning student-aid system and improve on it.
 
 
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It’s time for the White House to focus on drug approvals
 
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Ryan Streeter writes that our scientists and biomedical professionals are the best in the world. Those who can help them do their work more quickly need to do so, and that always only happens when they feel the pressure to do so.
 
 
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A 7-point checklist for reopening the economy
 
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The US needs a concrete and coherent strategy for reopening the economy, and Congress has to commit to propping up the economy over the long term if needed. Michael Strain gives seven principles to guide that effort. 
 
 
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Constitutional law as civic education
 
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Constitutional law provides the sort of civic education Americans seem to so desperately need, and it does so in a way that can help us recall what we share in common, even in our tribal present, writes George Thomas.
 
 
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The COVID-19 Manufacturing Tracker: Responding to the Defense Production Act
 
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The COVID-19 Manufacturing Tracker is a method for demonstrating the breadth of the private sector’s helpful response to this national emergency while also indicating where the federal government has begun to play a larger role by using the powers and authorities resident in the Defense Production Act, explains Mackenzie Eaglen.
 
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