When Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) was released last week, headlines such as the above announced that “climate change could cost Australians $40 billion per year by 2050.” It turns out…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | September 24, 2025
Key Points Introduction Throughout his 2024 campaign for a second White House term, Donald J. Trump characterized himself as “tariff man” and declared “tariff” the most beautiful word in the…
By Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Ye Zhang | September 24, 2025
Why Robotics Matters to US National Security Robotics is not merely about improving manufacturing efficiency or making another billion off of consumer gadgets. It stands to reshape the future architecture…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 18, 2025
The Trump White House is about to claim a major win on TikTok. Don’t be fooled. The deal on the table is not a victory for U.S. national security –…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 18, 2025
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)—the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer—reports a 34 percent increase in August revenue, it’s more than just corporate success; it’s evidence of a fundamental economic shift,…
By https://www.aei.org/profile/shane-tews/ | September 15, 2025
Three hundred thousand kilograms of methamphetamine precursor chemicals sit in a Houston warehouse, their blue barrels arranged in an oddly orderly display of chaos. The chemicals — enough to produce a million…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 8, 2025
The founders of the American republic assumed malice would be constrained by material scarcity: Weapons were expensive, destructive power centralized, and the state’s police and military could deter or punish…
By Ryan Fedasiuk | September 5, 2025
More than $16 billion has been stolen in 2024 due to cybercrime schemes such as phishing and data breaches, with losses projected to reach the trillions in 2025. This sharp rise in…
By Shane Tews | September 4, 2025
This paper is part of AEI’s Center for Technology, Science, and Energy’s (CTSE) Science, Industry, and the State Project Key Points Executive Summary In the past decade, two compelling changes…
By Derek Scissors | August 25, 2025
Domain names act as the backbone of the internet, but as millions of users worldwide use it, many non-Latin script languages face barriers to fully accessing the internet. While multilingual…
By Shane Tews | August 11, 2025
President Donald Trump recently signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law which, among other action items, restored the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum. Although this authority…
By Shane Tews | July 31, 2025
Event Summary On July 29, AEI hosted an event examining the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan and its implications for businesses, consumers, and national security. The panel, moderated by AEI’s…
By John Bailey | Will Rinehart | July 29, 2025
Key Points How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more…
By Chris Miller | July 25, 2025
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms how we work, learn, and organize institutions, questions emerge about whether our current social structures can adopt AI and harness its full potential. From…
By Shane Tews | July 23, 2025
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, At minimum, the Trump White House’s new AI Action Plan deserves credit for being honest about what it is: not a blueprint for technocratic governance or navigating a world…
By James Pethokoukis | July 23, 2025