Report
December 03, 2024

Immigration and the Macroeconomy in the Second Trump Administration

Brookings Institution
Donald Trump’s second-term immigration scenarios project net migration from 1.3 million to –650,000 in 2025, with gross domestic product impacts from –0.1 percent to –0.4 percent, underscoring the labor force and economic stakes.
By Stan Veuger | Wendy Edelberg | Cecilia Esterline | Tara Watson
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Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
19fortyfive.com

DOGE Needs to Tackle the Department of Defense’s CR Nightmare

By Mackenzie Eaglen
Article
December 02, 2024
The Honest Broker

Partisan Professors

By Roger Pielke Jr.
Event
October 28, 2024

America at 250: Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution

By Robert P. George | Yuval Levin | Adam J. White | John Yoo
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America at 250

An initiative by the American Enterprise Institute aimed at reintroducing Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

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Economics

Article
December 04, 2024
Little-Known Facts

Why do Members of Congress support the Social Security “Fairness” Act?

By Andrew G. Biggs
Working Paper
December 04, 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research

Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.

By Edward L. Glaeser | Arianna Salazar-Miranda | Zhuangyuan Fan | Michael B. Baick | Keith N. Hampton | Fabio Duarte | Becky P.Y. Loo | Carlo Ratti

Education

Op-Ed
December 04, 2024
Education Week

The Trump Administration Should ‘Devolve the Ed Dept.’s Responsibilities to the States’

By Frederick M. Hess
Post
December 03, 2024
AEIdeas

Linda McMahon, the Media, and Title IX

By Max Eden

Foreign and Defense Policy

Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
RealClearDefense

Biden Should Approve the Nippon Steel Acquisition

By John G. Ferrari
Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
19fortyfive.com

DOGE Needs to Tackle the Department of Defense’s CR Nightmare

By Mackenzie Eaglen

Health Care

Press
December 02, 2024
CNBC

Discussing the GLP-1 drug trade and developments: Gottlieb on CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’

By Scott Gottlieb
Op-Ed
December 02, 2024
City Journal

Expanding Reciprocity

By Sally Satel

Politics and Public Opinion

Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
The Dispatch

The Age of Corruption Roars On

By Chris Stirewalt
Event
November 25, 2024

Electoral Reform in the United States: A Book Event

By John C. Fortier

Opportunity and Social Mobility

Post
December 03, 2024
AEIdeas

Avoiding an Unemployment Loan Bailout

By Matt Weidinger
Op-Ed
December 01, 2024
New York Post

We Need More Wealthy People Like Jessica Tisch Choosing Public Service

By Howard Husock

Society and Culture

Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
The Wall Street Journal

Eric Adams’s Plea to Democrats

By Tunku Varadarajan
Multimedia
December 03, 2024
The Dispatch

From John Locke to Ezra Klein

By Jonah Goldberg

Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

Post
December 04, 2024
AEIdeas

Privacy and Property Smackdown

By Jim Harper
Article
December 03, 2024
Education Next

AI Tutors: Hype or Hope for Education?

By John Bailey

Research Products

Working Paper
December 04, 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research

Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.

By Edward L. Glaeser | Arianna Salazar-Miranda | Zhuangyuan Fan | Michael B. Baick | Keith N. Hampton | Fabio Duarte | Becky P.Y. Loo | Carlo Ratti
Report
December 03, 2024
AEIdeas

AEI Housing Market Indicators, November 2024

By Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Sissi Li
Report
December 03, 2024
Brookings Institution

Immigration and the Macroeconomy in the Second Trump Administration

By Stan Veuger | Wendy Edelberg | Cecilia Esterline | Tara Watson
Report
December 03, 2024

National Home Price Appreciation (HPA) Index—October 2024

By Tobias Peter | Edward J. Pinto
Report
December 03, 2024

Housing Finance Watch (Weeks 47 & 48, 2024)

By Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Sissi Li
Working Paper
December 02, 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research

Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation

By Edward L. Glaeser | Leonardo D’Amico | Joseph Gyourko | William R. Kerr | Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Report
December 02, 2024
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity

Reforming State Authorization of Colleges to Boost Competition and Lower Tuition

By Preston Cooper
Report
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November 27, 2024
American Enterprise Institute

Education Freedom Requires Assessment Choice

By Jeremy Wayne Tate
Working Paper
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November 26, 2024
AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Working Paper Series

Knowledge and Skills in China’s K-12 Population: An Inquiry into “Knowledge Capital” in the PRC

By Nicholas Eberstadt | Patrick Norrick | Radek Sabatka | Peter Van Ness
Report
November 21, 2024
National Academy of Sciences

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

By Michael R. Strain

Articles & Op-Eds

President Joe Biden accompanied by his son Hunter Biden and his grandson Beau leave a book store as they walk in downtown Nantucket Mass., Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Op-Ed
December 03, 2024

The Age of Corruption Roars On

The Dispatch
Like only a few of the bit players from the hundreds of scandals great and small in American political history, Hunter Biden has finally achieved a kind of immortality.
By Chris Stirewalt
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Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
The Washington Post

How Trump Can End the War in Ukraine for Good

By Marc A. Thiessen
Op-Ed
December 03, 2024
Education Next

22nd-Century Skills Guru Paul Banksley: Putting Evidence to Work for You

By Frederick M. Hess
Op-Ed
November 27, 2024
The Washington Post

Britain’s Assisted-Suicide Bill Should Raise Doubts Everywhere

By Ramesh Ponnuru

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November 13, 2024

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November 05, 2024

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What The Hell Podcast
November 27, 2024

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November 21, 2024

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The Report Card Podcast
November 27, 2024

Cognitive Load Theory, Explicit Teaching, and Bringing Research into the Classroom (with Greg Ashman)

By Nat Malkus | Greg Ashman
November 13, 2024

What the 2024 Elections Mean for Education

By Nat Malkus | Preston Cooper | Frederick M. Hess | Derrell Bradford | Virginia Gentles | Heather Harding
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November 19, 2024

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President, American Enterprise Institute

Robert Doar

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Opportunity and Social Mobility
Senior Fellow; Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy; Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies; and Editor in Chief, National Affairs

Yuval Levin

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Society and Culture
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Director of Economic Policy Studies

Michael R. Strain

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Kori Schake

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Foreign and Defense Policy
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Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity

Matthew Continetti

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Politics and Public Opinion
Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow

Yvonne Chiu

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Thomas smith
Nonresident Fellow

Thomas Smith

Policy Area
Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies
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Senior Fellow

Will Rinehart

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
Roger pielke
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Roger Pielke Jr.

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
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Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow

Audrye Wong

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
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Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow

Kyle Balzer

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Carole Hooven

Policy Area
Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
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Joseph S. Tracy

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Housing
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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Studies

Clay Calvert

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
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Ferdinando Monte

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Economics
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Nonresident Fellow

Boris Vabson

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Health Care
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Senior Fellow

Paul Lettow

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Practice of Public Policy

Rob Portman

Policy Area
Economics
Kevin corinth
Senior Fellow
Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility

Kevin Corinth

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Nonresident Fellow

Brian J. Miller

Policy Area
Health Care
Adjunct Fellow

Robert Cherry

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Senior Fellow

Joshua T. Katz

Policy Area
Society and Culture
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Nonresident Fellow

Dustin Walker

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Michael Brickman
Adjunct Fellow

Michael Brickman

Policy Area
Education
Chris Miller
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Chris Miller

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
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Nonresident Fellow

Jeffrey A. Rosen

Policy Area
Legal and Constitutional
Nonresident Fellow

Dan Slater

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Senior Fellow

Jenna Silber Storey

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Senior Fellow

Benjamin Storey

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Nonresident Fellow

J. Joel Alicea

Policy Area
Legal and Constitutional
Nonresident Fellow

William Haun

Policy Area
Legal and Constitutional
Nonresident Senior Fellow

James W. Coleman

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Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
Senior Fellow

Chris Stirewalt

Policy Area
Politics and Public Opinion
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Senior Fellow

Max Eden

Policy Area
Education
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Klon Kitchen

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Nonresident Fellow

Tunku Varadarajan

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Nonresident Fellow

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Technology, Science, and Energy

M. Anthony Mills

Policy Area
Center for Technology, Science, and Energy
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Eric Sayers

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
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John G. Ferrari

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Senior Fellow

Christopher J. Scalia

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Scott winship
Senior Fellow
Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility

Scott Winship

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Senior Fellow

Kevin R. Kosar

Policy Area
Legal and Constitutional
Senior Fellow

Steven B. Kamin

Policy Area
Economics
Senior Fellow

Philip Wallach

Policy Area
Legal and Constitutional
Senior Fellow

Elaine McCusker

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Amitabh Chandra
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Amitabh Chandra

Policy Area
Health Care
Visiting Fellow

Robert Kulick

Policy Area
Economics
Robert ponidiscio
Senior Fellow

Robert Pondiscio

Policy Area
Education
Ian Rowe
Senior Fellow

Ian Rowe

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Nonresident Fellow

Ross Douthat

Policy Area
Society and Culture
Nonresident Senior Fellow

Michael Beckley

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Senior Fellow

Kyle Pomerleau

Policy Area
Economics
Nonresident Fellow

John D. Maurer

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Nonresident Fellow

Kirsten Axelsen

Policy Area
Economics
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Nonresident Fellow

Mason M. Bishop

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
Senior Fellow

Hal Brands

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy
Director, Survey Center on American Life
Senior Fellow in Polling and Public Opinion

Daniel A. Cox

Policy Area
Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies
Senior Fellow and Rowe Scholar

Matt Weidinger

Policy Area
Opportunity and Social Mobility
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Senior Fellow

Giselle Donnelly

Policy Area
Foreign and Defense Policy