In his latest report, Hal Brands envisions the dynamics of a potential conflict with Communist China. Not only will that confrontation pose greater risks of conventional and nuclear escalation, he finds, but it is also unlikely to be short or geographically limited to flash points like the Taiwan Strait. With these challenges in mind, he proposes that American strategists must consider six crucial priorities: "endurance, resilience, coercion, termination, exploitation, and continuation."

In the latest report on party-identification trends from AEI's Survey Center on American Life, Daniel A. Cox measures Democrats' changing demographic and ideological makeup. For example, he finds that the share of Democrats identifying as liberals has risen significantly—from 28 percent to 50 percent—since 1998.

"The war in Ukraine raises the question of just how sustainable and secure global food supply chains really are," Elisabeth Braw writes in an article for Breakthrough Journal. She says that international food markets' complexity means that problems will persist, even in the unlikely event that trade with Ukraine and Russia reopens immediately.

Writing in the Dispatch, Ryan Streeter argues that progressives' cultural rhetoric and policies suggest a profound detachment from what he calls the "ideological heartland" of America—where he says 70 percent of Americans find themselves stuck between the left and right.

At AEI on Thursday, July 28, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) presented on the Family Security Act 2.0 and sat down with AEI President Robert Doar to answer questions about the proposal. After their conversation, a panel of outstanding family scholars, including AEI's Scott Winship and Angela Rachidi, took the stage to discuss the merits of conservative policies to support American families.