If authorities can’t figure out how to solve the problem of falling vaccination rates while schools are closed, we may have more dangerous outbreaks to worry about than just the coronavirus, writes Nat Malkus.
Michael Rubin writes that there should be judicial accountability for not only authorities in the port who may have been negligent but also the political leaders who turned a deaf ear to warnings about tons of ammonium nitrate stored within a stone’s throw to the heart of the city.
If convalescent plasma does help, it could help mitigate the pandemic's impact, explain Scott Gottlieb et al. But if this is going to work, we need to do it right.
Katharine Stevens explains that research on the effects of preschool shows the effects of parenting. Preschool doesn’t cause better long-term outcomes; it predicts them.
Great-power competition will be something of a cold shower for the special operations forces (SOF) community, not least because elite military units — and perhaps the US military as a whole — will no longer have the starring part in addressing the nation’s greatest strategic challenge. Hal Brands and Tim Nichols explain that it will require unwinding patterns of training and deployment that have become deeply embedded in the SOF organizational culture.
Events@AEI
Want more? Check out our upcoming events or watch clips of the latest guest speakers at AEI.
