AEI This Week
Jan 02, 2021
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
How to respond to Russia’s SolarWinds cyberattack
 
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Vladimir Putin took cyberwar to a new level, and the US could show some weapons it has kept hidden, writes Hal Brands.
 
 
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The bad and good in the new Paycheck Protection Program
 
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Michael Strain writes that, while imperfect, the program is better designed to support small businesses and workers until vaccines are more widely distributed.
 
 
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Joe Biden discovers Russia
 
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Joe Biden will discover Russia, writes Leon Aron. Not merely because it is a Russia different from the one of the 2009 “reset” or of the “collusion” mythology. It is now his Russia to deal with, his to “manage.”
 
 
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Scaling and stretching the supply of COVID-19 vaccines
 
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Given the stakes, health officials should be looking at every possible option for accelerating the manufacture and distribution of the mRNA vaccines, explain James Capretta and Scott Ganz.
 
 
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The impending cliff caused by food assistance expansions during the pandemic
 
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Time will tell how the pandemic-related food program expansions will affect households, writes Angela Rachidi. In the meantime, lawmakers should consider ways to limit the work disincentives and impending financial shocks likely to come once these provisions expire.
 
 
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AEI Spotlight
 
 
‘Anti-racist’ education is neither
 
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Frederick Hess and Grant Addison write that "anti-racism,” for all its high-minded claims and surface appeal, proves to be, on close examination, a farrago of reductive dogmatism, coercion, and anti-intellectual zealotry that’s remarkably unconcerned with either improving schooling or ameliorating prejudice.
 
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