AEI This Week
Sep 21, 2019
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Against the digital bunker mentality
 
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Michael Brendan Dougherty suspects that the only way out of the digital bunker mentality is to exit our digital bunkers. We need to take our most difficult conversations off social media and establish institutions and places where people can commune as human beings face-to-face.
 
 
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Saudi oil facility attack challenges Washington's credibility
 
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While the recent attacks on two Saudi oil facilities will affect global oil prices, Karen Young writes that it is the US commitment in the region that is under attack.
 
 
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US growth slowdown, energy production, and ratification of US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
 
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Important voices that in most contexts would not support the Donald Trump administration's policy initiatives recently have argued in favor of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement's congressional approval, explains Benjamin Zycher.
 
 
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4 poll results that’ll shape the 2020 election education debates
 
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This year's education surveys were rife with provocative findings. Frederick Hess highlights four that'll play an outsized role in shaping the 2020 election season education debates.
 
 
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What’s next for the GOP on immigration?
 
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Immigration law has hardly changed during Donald Trump’s presidency, writes Ramesh Ponnuru. This fact may be surprising given that immigration was the most important discrete issue on which he campaigned and has been a reliable source of controversy since he took office.
 
 
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China’s changing family structure: Dimensions and implications
 
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Over 2,500 years of family tradition in China is on an unavoidable collision course with 21st-century China’s new demographic realities, writes Nicholas Eberstadt. The demographic forces transforming the Chinese family are extraordinary and historically unprecedented. Curiously, despite the small library of studies on population change in modern China, little has been written on what these changes in the Chinese family portend.
 
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