On Tuesday, June 14, Betsy DeVos joined Frederick M. Hess for a conversation about her tenure as secretary of education and her new book, Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child (Center Street, 2022), which will be published on June 21. Secretary DeVos explained the impetus for her book: "These last two years have really laid bare the failings of a system that all of us have known all of our lives."

Mark J. Warshawsky contends that the 2022 Social Security trustees report ignores harsh realities facing Social Security, presenting improvements that are "based on an unrealistically low short-term inflation forecast and an overly optimistic long-run forecast of a fertility bounce-back."

Daniel Lyons examines a new Government Accountability Office report on the failure and fragmentation of prior federal efforts to guarantee broadband internet access for all Americans. He says the report suggests that greater accountability, not more funding, will be needed to achieve that objective.

Writing in National Review, Yuval Levin and Scott Winship say that Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-UT) new child benefit proposal reflects lessons learned from conservative criticisms of his earlier plan. Now, Sen. Romney has returned with a new proposal that Levin and Winship say "advances the two core goals shared by all on the right."

In her review of Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by AEI's Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey (Princeton University Press, 2021), Diana Schaub writes, "The Storeys provide a model for how the thought of the past can be made vital."

Brent Orrell and Jessie Wall assess how the global phenomenon of deindustrialization has affected politically divergent industrialized nations—namely, America and Russia—in quite similar ways.

In a Straight Arrow News video, Matthew Continetti cites the recent scholarship of AEI's Mackenzie Eaglen to warn that President Joe Biden's defense budget request does not match his increasing global commitments, such as his promise to defend Taiwan militarily.

The daily Ukraine invasion updates from AEI's Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War are trusted around the world. On Thursday, June 16, Ukrainian Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov used one of their maps to brief French President Emmanuel Macron, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis (behind Macron), Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi).