AEI This Week
Jan 23, 2021
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Call out new threats to freedom in America
 
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At this fraught juncture in our national existence, the incoming president must convince a mistrustful public that he recognizes the new threats to freedom loose in our country, writes Nicholas Eberstadt.
 
 
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A $15 minimum wage would wreck US economic recovery
 
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There are better ways to help low-wage workers than raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, explains Michael Strain.
 
 
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A normal and exceptional inaugural
 
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We can hope that Joe Biden's underlying decency, to which everyone who has known him attests and which comes across at a distance, may guide him toward decisions that help stitch our political culture back together and resist the awful impulses unleashed in our society in recent years, writes Yuval Levin.
 
 
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Our history then and now
 
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American historiography — the writing of our history — has never been a more hotly contested political battleground than it is today, explains Algis Valiunas.
 
 
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5 questions for Claude Barfield on the future of trade policy with China
 
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Claude Barfield and James Pethokoukis discuss how trade policy with China may change under the Joe Biden administration.
 
 
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What lessons can the child welfare system take from the COVID-19 pandemic?
 
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Naomi Schaefer Riley et al. write that COVID-19 and subsequent government responses introduced new barriers to detecting and responding to child maltreatment and achieving permanency for children in foster care.
 
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