The fall 2022 issue of AEI's National Affairs, a quarterly journal of public policy, is out now. Nat Malkus headlines the issue with a comprehensive article on the education policy debate and the changing landscape of public opinion. "It seems that just as education's salience with voters is rising," writes Malkus, "Democrats' advantage is dissolving."

Also in AEI's National Affairs, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey consider the opposing attitudes about free speech in American society. Synthesizing both sides, the coauthors envision a balanced form of civil discourse rooted in the classical tradition of political speech.

Several states, including California, will tax residents' canceled student debt. Alex Brill and Grant M. Seiter estimate these states' new tax revenues.

In the latest report for AEI's "Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda" series, Stig Leschly proposes new accreditors for new opportunity-oriented colleges. According to Leschly, monitoring new nonprofit "startup colleges," which emphasize innovation and economic mobility, will require specialization.

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Nicholas Eberstadt and Evan Abramsky warn that America's declining educational performance poses a national security threat, as we lose a crucial advantage that we have long taken for granted. Eberstadt and Abramsky say America's skilled workforce will soon be smaller than those of rising powers, such as China and India.