Dan Blumenthal's latest book is about China’s grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, decaying, and dangerous rival. China exercises its strength and power to undermine the US and afflicts the world with its internal weaknesses and maladies.
Donald Trump seemed to understand the power of the presidency as fundamentally rhetorical — a way of changing reality by saying it should be different or insisting that it was, writes Yuval Levin.
Congress should not wait until February to pass another economic recovery package. Michael Strain explains that the economy needs additional federal support now to tide things over until promising vaccines are widely distributed.
Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari advocate for a more nuanced discussion of modernizing legacy weapons systems with current technology now while waiting for the more innovative platforms to field in the future.
James Capretta writes that Congress must change the laws that govern how the employer-sponsored insurance market works to make the coverage more secure for workers and their families and to encourage more effective cost discipline.
AEI commissioned an original survey to assess the performance of the existing safety net and determine whether it responded sufficiently to families’ needs during the pandemic. Angela Rachidi explains that reported use of safety-net benefits, including unemployment compensation and private sources of help, suggests the safety net was successful in delivering financial help to vulnerable families.
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