The European Union is pursuing an ambitious digital policy project: create a unified data economy imbued with European values under European governance. Launched in 2020, the European Strategy for Data aims to…
By Mark Jamison | July 21, 2025
Event Summary On July 16, AEI’s Shane Tews introduced Palantir Technologies’ Courtney Bowman, the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Alexandra Reeve Givens, the IRS’s Daniel Werfel, and Election Security &…
By Shane Tews | July 16, 2025
Event Summary On July 9, AEI hosted an expert panel examining the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, along with broader issues related to online expression, regulatory authority,…
By Clay Calvert | Daniel Lyons | Shane Tews | July 9, 2025
Event Summary On July 9, Ethics & Public Policy Center Fellow and Technology and Human Flourishing Project Director Clare Morell joined AEI’s Timothy P. Carney to discuss her new book, The…
By Christine Rosen | Timothy P. Carney | July 9, 2025
The Open App Markets Act (OAMA) has reemerged in Congress with renewed momentum, aiming to break up what some lawmakers perceive as monopolistic control over mobile app distribution. Supporters frame this legislation…
By Shane Tews | July 3, 2025
My AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. posted some useful observations recently on the politicized use of extreme greenhouse gas (GHG) scenarios for purposes of the usual climate scaremongering and support of policies…
By Benjamin Zycher | June 9, 2025
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “The Real Story of the ‘China Shock‘,” economists James J. Heckman (a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago) and Hanming Fang (University of…
By James Pethokoukis | June 4, 2025
While drug pricing has been a consistent focus for policymakers concerned about access to medicine, another significant barrier to care has grown: drug shortages. Drug shortages have become more prevalent,…
By Kristen Axelson | May 30, 2025
A couple of weeks ago, the climate writer Robinson Meyer posted something that’s been on my mind. It gets at something fundamental about the infrastructure of American cities. This is a trite…
By Will Rinehart | May 7, 2025
How long, if ever, before we achieve artificial intelligence that can pretty much do everything that a human worker can do currently? My short-hand way of gauging the speculative timeline…
By James Pethokoukis | April 28, 2025
The US government will be “taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN”, President Donald Trump recently declared. Given his repeated promises to impose a tariff on…
By Chris Miller | April 23, 2025
The orchid was once an expensive, highly cultivated symbol of refinement; now, cheaper cultivars can be found in almost any grocery store. Perhaps that makes it a fitting image for…
By Christine Rosen | April 21, 2025
America’s nuclear paradox: Yesterday’s reactors are being resurrected to power the future. For example: At Palisades, Michigan, engineers rush to repair steam generators before an October 2025 restart, while at…
By James Pethokoukis | April 21, 2025
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon Musk and his erstwhile partner, Vivek Ramaswamy, gestured toward some…
By Yuval Levin | April 15, 2025
Amid the familiar lines of political division in America—immigration, abortion, taxes, regulation, and the like—a new divide has emerged over trust in science. Concerns about the politicization of science and…
By Tony Mills | Price St. Clair | April 14, 2025