Over the past few months, the US Supreme Court has taken on several key cases challenging the scope of presidential power. Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance Adam J. White categorizes presidential power into two types—whom the president has authority to fire and what authority he can wield to set policy—and evaluates where the Supreme Court is headed in expanding or limiting each type.
Minnesota’s massive welfare fraud scandal highlights how the systems of government aid, originally designed for those in need, have become all-too-easy to exploit. AEI Director of Domestic Policy Studies Matthew Continetti scrutinizes the way government benefits have permeated the status quo and how states like Minnesota, which failed to enforce the rules, left the door wide open for fraud.
A recent memo by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) senior official alleged that COVID-19 vaccines caused at least 10 deaths and announced changes to the FDA’s core policies on vaccine development and safety. AEI Senior Fellow Scott Gottlieb and coauthors dissect the flawed methodology behind the justification for these changes and argue that the memo threatens science-based regulation and public trust.
The American right has struggled to address its internal rupture over attitudes toward Israel, particularly as prominent figures continue to spread antisemitic conspiracies and sow division within the coalition. Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow Daniel J. Samet argues why the right must decisively reject anti-Zionism for the sake of civilizational strength and American security.
