This week, Donald Trump selected J. D. Vance as his vice presidential candidate. AEI Domestic Policy Director Matthew Continetti explains what this says about Trump’s vision for the Republican Party.

As the Republican National Convention wraps up, Trump’s support is surging in swing states. In a new AEI report, RealClearPolitics election analyst and AEI Nonresident Fellow Sean Trende demonstrates why, contrary to conventional wisdom, the 2022 midterm election results predict Republican success in this year’s elections.

Whoever wins the presidential election will inherit the long-term challenge of retooling our armed forces to account for technological innovation and great-power competition. As Pentagon leaders begin to plan the fiscal year 2026 budget, retired Army Major General and AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow John G. Ferrari lays out a series of difficult, but necessary, pivots each branch of service must make to be ready for the future.

Landmark decisions at the end of this year’s Supreme Court term will decisively shape the policy agenda of whichever party claims victory. In a new podcast conversation with AEI President Robert Doar, constitutional law expert and Laurence H. Silberman Chair Adam J. White shows how decisions on administrative law and presidential immunity redefine the proper roles of the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court.

The legacy of COVID and the challenges of responding to climate change and Chinese competition give policymakers an opportunity to rethink American science policy. In a new report for AEI’s Project on Science, Industry, and the State, Director of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy M. Anthony Mills provides a historical overview of American science policy to warn against treating science purely instrumentally.