1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (290+ words) A recently released memo signed by Deputy Secretary Feinberg on “Supplier Cost and Pricing Transparency” may be the worst and most damaging piece of defense acquisition and industrial policy written in the last 50 years. It essentially returns defense contracting to…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (525+ words) Over the past year, the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to remove progressive ideology from museum exhibits and the various supplementary materials it puts out (e.g., its press releases, the guides it makes for educators, and so on). Many Smithsonian…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (383+ words) Unable to win the war against Iran, President Trump is unrolling a new strategy: pretending to win. The U.S.-Iran cease fire, honored mostly in the breach for its sixty day term, has lapsed with no negotiations to extend it. President…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1763+ words) Below is a lightly edited and abridged transcript of our discussion. You can listen to this and other episodes of Explain to Shane on AEI.org and subscribe via your preferred listening platform. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (447+ words) Be careful what you say on social media, no matter how rich, famous, and powerful you are. Your posts could come back to haunt you when a defendant contends you’re prosecuting him to exact retribution on a perceived political enemy....

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (612+ words) Mass immigration is arguably the most important demographic force at play in Europe today. It is also one of the most salient—and polarizing—issues in contemporary European politics. In our previous post we examined the case of Spain—a…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (282+ words) George Santanyana, the Spanish philosopher, famously said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Fast forward to Japan in 2026. Over the past year, the Japanese yen has depreciated by almost 10 percent to a low of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (181+ words) A possible corollary to the truism “mo money mo problems” might be “more innovation, more problems.” Technological solutions to existing problems typically create new problems. Fossil fuels are a classic example. They powered the great acceleration in living standards of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (587+ words) Late last month the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, an enclave on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, was suddenly overrun by an influx of tens of thousands of migrants—overwhelmingly, young Moroccan men. (Spain’s Interior Minister…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) When reading Mark Zuckerberg’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, one passage made me take a second beat: While Zuck presents this as a thought experiment, it’s a yarn that could only come from the Bay Area. I’ve been…...