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August 22, 2020 at 11:17 AM

AEI This Week: What Kamala Harris isn’t saying about her mother’s background

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} What Kamala Harris isn’t saying about her mother’s background Reuters Many Americans will learn about the remarkable woman who raised Kamala Harris and her younger sister, Maya. They also deserve to learn the le…

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August 15, 2020 at 11:18 AM

AEI This Week: The return of pen-and-phone constitutionalism

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} The return of pen-and-phone constitutionalism Reuters President Donald Trump’s executive actions for COVID-19 assistance offer little relief but are constitutionally dangerous, explain Yuval Levin and Adam White…

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August 8, 2020 at 11:16 AM

AEI This Week: Staggering drop in vaccination rates for children could cause outbreaks more dangerous than coronavirus

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} If authorities can’t figure out how to solve the problem of falling vaccination rates while schools are closed, we may have more dangerous outbreaks to worry about than j…

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August 1, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: The real challenge of voting by mail

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} There will be far more voting by mail this fall than we have seen before in a national election in America, writes Yuval Levin. That’s because Election Day will come amid…

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July 25, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: Anthropology defines the right

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Conservative anthropology points toward both communitarianism and individualism, and the tension between the two emerges in every conservative effort to wrestle with real…

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July 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: Want to understand what the Supreme Court did this term? These two words are the key.

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The Supreme Court is the least unwell branch of government, in no small part because of the chief justice’s careful stewardship, writes Adam White. ${buttonText} …

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July 11, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: KIPP’s new mantra: ‘Slack off. Be mean.’

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The KIPP charter school network recently announced that it is abandoning its longtime mantra "Work hard. Be nice." KIPP’s leaders claim the slogan hinders efforts to “dis…

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July 4, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Fiscal policy and the major entitlements: An introduction

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} When the coronavirus abates, policymakers will be facing a dramatically altered fiscal outlook that will demand new thinking about how to return the nation to a sustainab…

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June 27, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: The power of personal agency

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Our nation’s educators must help black girls and boys cultivate a sense of personal agency and convince them that their deliverance is determined more by their own action…

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June 20, 2020 at 10:13 AM

AEI This Week: An analysis of Joe Biden’s tax proposals

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} A report from Kyle Pomerleau, Jason DeBacker, and Richard W. Evans finds that Biden’s proposals would increase taxes, on average, for households at every income level and…

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June 13, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: The Tom Cotton op-ed and the cultural revolution

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The force transforming Western liberalism has many hashtags and slogans, but no one name that everyone can recognize as a singular description of the thing itself. Whatev…

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June 6, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: China, unquarantined

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The world is suffering a planetary plague because China today is deeply integrated into the world economy and into the institutions of global governance — even though it …

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May 30, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: 3 Americas and the pandemic

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} 3 Americas and the pandemic ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The experience of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City has no counterpart elsewhere. No other city or area has anything like New York’s …

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May 23, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: 3 Americas and the pandemic, part I: New York City

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The experience of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City has no counterpart elsewhere. No other city or area has anything like New York’s combination of size, density,…

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May 16, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Dealing with the pandemic is not entirely rocket science

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Policymakers should consider the relationship of population density to the spread of the coronavirus because this relationship creates sets of policy options that are rad…

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May 9, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: How Congress can help the states

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} To keep discord over money from poisoning the cooperative tenor of the national response to the pandemic, Congress will need to divide the aid it offers to states into se…

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May 2, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: 5 things to know if Kim Jong Un dies

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Hereditary dictatorships rarely last past three generations, writes Oriana Skylar Mastro, and collapse may be in the cards for North Korea. ${buttonText} ${artic…

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April 25, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: The coronavirus could imperil Putin’s presidency

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} COVID-19 has exacerbated tensions and exposed political and economic inadequacies in Russia, testing the strength and legitimacy of institutions and confidence in nationa…

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April 18, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Public health principles for a phased reopening during COVID-19: Guidance for governors

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} This report provides an assessment of the risk of COVID-19 transmission in a variety of organizations and settings that have been closed. Scott Gottlieb and other authors…

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April 11, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: After the CARES Act, hospitals and businesses need sustained support

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The $2 trillion CARES Act recently signed by President Donald Trump is a big step toward stability, but more action is required, writes R. Glenn Hubbard. New fiscal inter…

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April 4, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: The crisis Congress

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} An intense emergency naturally draws our attention to the president. But even in a crisis, and particularly an extended one, the legislature has crucial work to do. Congr…

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March 28, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: We need a hard pause, followed by a soft start

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The purpose of our strategy should be to create a sustainable way to live with the virus, not secure its total defeat, writes Yuval Levin. ${buttonText} ${articl…

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March 21, 2020 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Washington’s response to the virus

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} At this stage in the crisis, it seems that many key officials are doing many important things right yet they also have to work around some serious decisional dysfunction …

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March 14, 2020 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: COVID-19 lab test capacity tracker

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} AEI’s health policy team is actively tracking COVID-19 lab test capacity in the United States. The comprehensive list details the number of patients per day that could be…

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March 7, 2020 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: Back to basics for conservative education reform

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Character formation, civics, and the inculcation of the best of our traditions are inseparable from any meaningful idea of education, writes Yuval Levin. Conservatives wi…

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February 29, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: The new forgotten man

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Conservative policymakers need to rediscover that there is much more to the American economy than managers and workers, writes Ryan Streeter. Dynamism is not a given, and…

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February 22, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: US consumers are piling up debt, and that’s fine

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Consumer debt is rising in the US. However, low rates of delinquency and higher rates of personal saving suggest that American households can handle this increase, writes…

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February 15, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Transparency is killing Congress

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Acknowledging the costs of transparency and acting to counter them could help senators and representatives see just where their energy should be directed and so set Congr…

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February 8, 2020 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: A republic, if we can keep it

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Constitutional structure, like any structure, does not maintain itself, writes Adam White. Each generation has to maintain its institutions and repair any damage that its…

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February 1, 2020 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: We need to prepare for US outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Even though there’s a lot that we don’t know about the novel coronavirus that’s burning its way through China, there are some critical assumptions we should make about it…

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January 25, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: What must be done to head off the coronavirus threat

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Scott Gottlieb writes that even if the Wuhan virus doesn’t mutate into a more potent illness, as it could, it’s a disturbing reminder that we remain too vulnerable to the…

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January 18, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Libya explains why Turkey has no friends

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} In a decade, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s foreign policies have left Turkey isolated in its neighborhood, explains Kori Schake. ${buttonText} ${article01Titl…

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January 11, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Will the killing of Soleimani be the death knell for Trump’s own Middle East strategy?

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia chief Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis was an important tactical victory, but the crucial question is …

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January 4, 2020 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: The Trump administration is suddenly all-in on Iran in Iraq

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Notably, the great opportunity for the United States that follows from the elimination of Sulaymani and Muhandis lies not with Iran, but with Iraq, explains Kenneth Polla…

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December 28, 2019 at 1:20 PM

2019 highlights from AEI - Annual Report

I am proud to share the American Enterprise Institute’s 2019 Annual Report , which highlights our role over the past year in advancing free enterprise and liberal democracy both at home and abroad. I hope you will take some time to explore the report and read about how AEI scholars have influenc…

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December 21, 2019 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Why the child tax credit is the wrong policy for low-income families

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} A pro-work approach is better policy for lifting families out of poverty, writes Angela Rachidi. This involves addressing the employment disincentives built into existing…

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December 19, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Reasons to support the American Enterprise Institute

Good morning: Thank you for your interest in the American Enterprise Institute and for participating in our events, subscribing to our newsletters, and following our work over the past year.   Will you consider making a tax-deductible year-end investment in AEI?      Across policy areas, AEI…

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December 14, 2019 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Price controls would stifle biotech innovation

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Bad policies could sap the risk-taking that brings forth the most important innovations. For instance, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act would expose the 250 costliest drugs t…

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December 7, 2019 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: Russian jokes tell the brutal truth

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The genre of dark political joke — the "anekdot" — has been a staple of Russian humor at least since Soviet times, and anyone associated with the Kremlin is fair game, wr…

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November 30, 2019 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: If the Democrats win in 2020, they will push a nationwide public option, not Medicare for All

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The Democratic Party’s next big idea in health care will be a public option, not single-payer, says James Capretta. ${buttonText} ${article01TitleText} ${artic…

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November 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM

AEI This Week: Warren’s Medicare for All 'transition' plan is surrender in disguise

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Elizabeth Warren wants to be seen as a true champion of Medicare for All while signaling to the skeptics in her party that she understands it’s a long shot (at best) and …

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November 16, 2019 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: Tired of polarizing politics? Spend more time in the neighborhood

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} While our political polarization is a real thing and has gotten worse in recent decades, it is important to remember that many solvable problems can be handled by us, in …

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November 9, 2019 at 12:14 PM

AEI This Week: The 2 things every senior Pentagon leader is worried about

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Talk to any senior Pentagon official these days, and they’ll raise two big issues, writes Mackenzie Eaglen. Not Iran, not the border wall, not impeachment — not even the …

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November 2, 2019 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: What is going on with ISIS? Baghdadi is dead, but the Islamic State is alive and well

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen interviewed The New York Times’ Eric Schmitt to learn more about the state of ISIS. They discuss the American troop withdrawal from nort…

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October 26, 2019 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: What deficit?

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Republicans have read the politics of the Trump era to suggest they should no longer even pretend to care about the federal deficit, while Democrats are going even furthe…

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October 19, 2019 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: Rising tax burdens for those earning the most

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Is the tax code sufficiently progressive? The answer depends on not only the values of the person answering the question but also the tricky evidence, explain Alex Brill …

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October 12, 2019 at 11:14 AM

AEI This Week: In Harvard’s magical admissions process, nobody gets hurt

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The university said using race can only help, and never hurt, applicants, writes Ramesh Ponnuru. Can you believe a judge bought it? ${buttonText} ${article01Titl…

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October 5, 2019 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: China: 70 years of the People's Republic

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed that China had defeated the imperialists and that the Chinese people have stood up to become a "peace-" and "freedom-loving" nat…

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September 28, 2019 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Improving the productivity of public services is a thankless but necessary endeavor

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} The Trump administration has proposed significant cuts to domestic discretionary spending, writes James Capretta. The administration would have more success restraining s…

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September 21, 2019 at 11:13 AM

AEI This Week: Against the digital bunker mentality

View as a web page ${newsletterName} ${newsletterDate} ${newsletterSubtitle} ${article01TitleText} ${article01Credit} Michael Brendan Dougherty suspects that the only way out of the digital bunker mentality is to exit our digital bunkers. We need to take our most difficult conversations …

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