In this blog post, I briefly discuss its direct costs, its fairness, the fraud it engenders, and its adverse consequences for work incentives and for the cost and functioning of the health care system ...

In the days and weeks after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Jews around the world were horrified to find that antisemitism—once believed marginalised under the principle of “never again”—was ...

President Donald Trump played cheerleader for the US economy in a prime-time address last night. But in the end, facts on the ground will matter more than words on a teleprompter.

I have NCAR to thank for my entire career. I worked at NCAR as a FORTRAN programmer in the late 1980s while an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, just down the hill. NCAR is ...

With the November 2026 midterm elections front and center in the minds of White House politicos, the Trump administration has conveniently announced a $12 billion increase in ad hoc government ...

We convened a series of five discussions which put students at JHU and young scholars at AEI in conversation with leading experts on an array of important issues.

President Donald Trump recently was speaking at a press event touting tech billionaire Michael Dell’s pledge of $6 billion in supplementary funding toward so-called “Trump accounts,” which already ...

Now that international energy prices are on the back foot and expected to remain so in the year ahead, US and European policymakers might do well to focus on Russia’s energy vulnerability in their ...

Introduction Employer-sponsored retirement plans – such as 401(k)s – offer a convenient way for workers to save through contributions deducted from their paycheck. Yet, many private sector workers ...

AI can also be an ally in addressing the problems it creates and exposes by accelerating vulnerability discovery, assisting security review, and eventually supporting more resilient coding practices.

Cassidy plan is worth exploring and developing further because it would provide a pathway to incentivizing insurance enrollment without fully embracing the Affordable Care Act model.

I defer to no one in my appreciation of much of Western Europe, including the UK. I love the history, the art. the languages, the culture, and the food (not in the UK). I speak three European ...