http://www.aei.org/views/images/accountRegistration/aeismall-reg.gif http://www.aei.org 50 50 AEI http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/will-president-obama-suffer-from-a-bain-backlash/The ham-handed Barack Obama campaign attack ads on Mitt Romney's former firm Bain Capital have drawn a lot of ire from other Democrats.

]]>2012-05-26 08:44:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/ornstein-mann-on-morning-joe/2012-05-24 09:55:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/Despite a growing backlash from his fellow Democrats, President Obama has doubled down on his attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. But the strategy could backfire in ways Obama did not anticipate. After all, if Romney’s record in private equity is fair game, then so is Obama’s record in public equity — and that record is not pretty.

]]>2012-05-24 08:22:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/some-good-news-but-bad-news-outweighs-it/Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

]]>2012-05-23 08:41:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/jonah-goldberg-on-the-constitution/2012-05-22 11:28:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/which-kind-of-capitalism-a-debate-for-obama-and-romney/America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

 

]]>2012-05-22 10:50:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/life-in-a-cocoon-dulls-political-responses/2012-05-22 08:28:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/executive/obama-pursues-higher-tax-rates-growth-be-damned/In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

]]>2012-05-20 08:53:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/goldberg-will-youth-turn-out-to-vote-in-2012/2012-05-18 15:11:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/why-washington-hates-jamie-dimon/Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

]]>2012-05-18 10:14:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/generation-pap/This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

]]>2012-05-18 09:41:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/thiessen-wh-editing-biographies-of-other-presidents/2012-05-17 14:17:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/executive/obamas-fatal-flaw-revealed-in-white-house-websites-presidential-bios/Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

]]>2012-05-17 08:18:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/want-to-end-partisan-politics-heres-what-wont-work-and-what-will/Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

]]>2012-05-17 08:13:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/audio-is-uncertainty-responsible-for-high-unemployment/2012-05-16 15:44:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/audio-the-tyranny-of-clichs-how-liberals-cheat-in-the-war-of-ideas/2012-05-16 15:10:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/research-cuts-are-akin-to-eating-seed-corn/If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

]]>2012-05-16 09:21:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/rattled-obama-team-making-miscues/Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.

]]>2012-05-16 06:15:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/romneys-media-handicap/The time is coming for Romney to get angry, very angry, with what is increasingly, quaintly called "the mainstream media."

]]>2012-05-15 14:48:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/polls/what-did-the-public-think-about-taxes-in-2011/2012-05-14 11:13:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elizabeth-warren-has-used-shoddy-evidence-before/Elizabeth Warren is again at the center of a political controversy. Despite her insistence that she is part Cherokee, based upon “family lore” and her observation that some in her family had “high cheekbones like all the Indians do,” she has failed to produce any concrete evidence to substantiate her claim.

]]>2012-05-14 09:43:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/three-different-ways-to-look-at-the-2012-campaign/Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

]]>2012-05-12 08:22:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/is-uncertainty-responsible-for-high-unemployment/In this event, participants will review the Bhagat-Obreja paper and consider the role of uncertainty in major business decisions.

]]>2012-05-11 09:30:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/elections/money-primary/For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

]]>2012-05-11 09:15:00http://www.aei.org/article/politics-and-public-opinion/barry-goldwater-vindicated/The liberal critics of Republicans want the GOP to behave itself and go back to the good old days best described by Eugene McCarthy’s quip that the chief purpose of moderate Republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle is over. No thanks.

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