By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

An administration and Congress focused on government efficiency may want to tackle the student loan nonpayment crisis before it is too late.

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

A scholarly debate over the meaning of the First Amendment’s Press Clause could influence the Associated Press’s battle against the Trump administration for access to the Oval Office and Air Force One ...

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been directed "to facilitate the closure" of her own department — well, what’s left of it. The Trump administration's vow to essentially eliminate it appears ...

Economics is not President Trump’s strong suit. First, he promotes import tariffs as if they were the cure-all for the country’s trade deficit. Then, he engenders the greatest degree of economic ...

AEI’s online speech project aims to move the debate about online content moderation and Section 230 beyond the familiar talking points, as well as broaden the conversation to a multistakeholder ...

The AEI Economics Working Paper series is intended to make preliminary research findings by AEI scholars available for discussion prior to publication. Resident Scholar Stan Veuger is editor of ...

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