Iran and the United States are engaged in a dangerous game of chicken over the Strait of Hormuz. That game could lead to the collapse of the Iranian economy and to the precipitation of a US and world ...

Welcome to the home page of a critical analysis of the United States’ workforce development system. Below, AEI’s team provides a report examining the history, alignment, and funding structure of ...

The Defense Futures Simulator (DFS) is an interactive online tool designed to empower scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to create and analyze defense strategies and budgets. DFS allows users ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Unlike most 18-year-olds, Lizzie Penola arrived at Hillsdale College in the fall of 2021 with well-formed education and career objectives already set in her mind. One of seven siblings from Zionsville ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

The American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center released its monthly update to the AEI Housing Market Indicators on March 31, 2026.

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

In 2020, just days before his election, President Joe Biden rebuffed calls to radically change the Supreme Court by packing it with additional justices. But four years later, Biden is calling for ...

The Workforce Futures Initiative is a research collaboration among the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener ...

In July 2015, the Obama administration announced the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program to support postsecondary opportunities for those incarcerated in federal and state prisons. Providing federal ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...