There is an old Wall Street joke about a man jumping off the Empire State building. When asked at the fortieth floor how he was doing, he replied: “So far, so good”. We have ...

AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford S. AsnessManaging ...

“Renewable” electricity — predominantly wind and solar power — is all the rage, described by numerous commentators, politicians, pundits, journalists, and other such “experts” as cost-competitive, ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar awarded renowned historian and professor of history emeritus at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood, the highest honor bestowed by the Institute, on ...

Investors owning more than 100 properties account for a mere one percent of the US single-family housing stock, according to a recent and penetrating analysis by my AEI colleagues. Even at their peak, ...

Large-language models (LLMs) increasingly inform policy research. We asked 5 flagship LLMs from leading AI companies in 2025 (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and DeepSeek) to rate 26 prominent U.S.

What’s New: Global electricity demand, which saw a moderate increase in 2023, is expected to rise more sharply through 2026, driven by emerging economies and, reportedly, will be met entirely by clean ...

The Israel-Hamas War is a prelude to future Iranian aggression in the Middle East. Iranian military leaders are explicitly drawing lessons from the war to develop concepts for fighting and destroying ...

Evidence shows that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), like other means-tested programs, reduces employment levels among those eligible. Work requirements in SNAP are one tool to ...

The billion-dollar pandemic-era social service billing fraud perpetuated mainly by Somali immigrants in Minneapolis is shocking in its scale. That Minnesota public officials would have turned a blind ...

In 1991 Nobel economist Milton Friedman (pictured above giving a talk at AEI, exact year unknown) was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning drug reporter Randy Paige on “America’s Drug Forum,” a national ...