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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘Unprecedential’ with Adam White

“Unprecedential” host Adam White lists his five favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘The Report Card’ with Nat Malkus

“The Report Card” host Nat Malkus lists his five favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 23, 2020

Top 10 podcasts of 2020: ‘What the Hell Is Going On?’ with Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen

“What the Hell Is Going On?” hosts Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen lists their 10 favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘Hardly Working’ with Brent Orrell

“Hardly Working” host Brent Orrell lists his five favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘Are You Kidding Me?’ and ‘The Invisible Men’

“Are You Kidding Me?” hosts Ian Rowe and Naomi Riley Schaefer list their five favorite podcast episodes of 2020, and Rowe also discusses his new podcast series, “The Invisible Men.”

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December 23, 2020

The impending cliff caused by food assistance expansions during the pandemic

Time will tell how the pandemic-related food program expansions will impact households. In the meantime, lawmakers should consider ways to limit the work disincentives and impending financial shocks likely to come once these provisions expire.

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December 23, 2020

5 questions for Amitabh Chandra on promoting choice and preserving innovation in health care

Amitabh Chandra discusses how America’s health care system can be improved in affordability without ignoring market forces or sacrificing medical innovation.

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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘Explain to Shane’ with Shane Tews

“Explain to Shane” host Shane Tews lists her five favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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Economics

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December 23, 2020

5 questions for Amitabh Chandra on promoting choice and preserving innovation in health care

Amitabh Chandra discusses how America’s health care system can be improved in affordability without ignoring market forces or sacrificing medical innovation.

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December 22, 2020

President Reagan on why freedom is key to maximizing human potential and prosperity

Thinking about the possibilities of what may come and what is needed to make them happen recalls President Reagan’s great speech to the students of Moscow State University in 1988.

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December 21, 2020

5 questions for Jim Tankersley on the health of America’s middle class

Jim Tankersley explores whether Americans look back nostalgically on the economy of the 1950s and 1960s, and he discusses the lessons policymakers should take from the past 40 years to expand economic opportunity in the US.

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December 18, 2020

Are Big Tech firms monopolies? My long-read Q&A with Nicolas Petit

Nicholas Petit explores whether America’s Big Tech firms have become too powerful and whether they function as monopolies.

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December 17, 2020

AEI’s favorite books of 2020

With 2020 coming to a close, we asked some of our scholars to tell us about their favorite books that they read this year.

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Foreign and Defense Policy

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December 23, 2020

Top 10 podcasts of 2020: ‘What the Hell Is Going On?’ with Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen

“What the Hell Is Going On?” hosts Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen lists their 10 favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 22, 2020

No free climate lunch

If the incoming Biden administration intends to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, it faces an unpleasant confrontation with Beijing.

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December 21, 2020

Iraqi Christians receive welcome news this Christmas season

Pope Francis has an opportunity to publicly defend and highlight endangered Christians around the world, and visiting Iraq should be the first — and not the only — step in standing up for those facing religious persecution.

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December 17, 2020

AEI’s favorite books of 2020

With 2020 coming to a close, we asked some of our scholars to tell us about their favorite books that they read this year.

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December 15, 2020

The Congressional Budget Office’s menu of defense cuts

The new administration should reject the assumption that the defense budget must come down because of spending to combat the pandemic. The US military cannot deter the Chinese and defend our global interests without additional support.

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December 11, 2020

Jack Keane against the cut and run from Afghanistan

Jack Keane’s arguments against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan serve as a master class from a general who served on the ground and knows the enemy.

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Tech Policy

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December 23, 2020

Top 5 podcasts of 2020: ‘Explain to Shane’ with Shane Tews

“Explain to Shane” host Shane Tews lists her five favorite podcast episodes of 2020.

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December 22, 2020

Shaping tech policy at the Federal Communications Commission: Highlights from a conversation with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joined “Explain to Shane” to discuss what lies ahead for the next FCC and how the agency has navigated complex issues such as 5G, spectrum allocation, and Restoring Internet Freedom.

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December 21, 2020

Biden’s China trade challenges: Trade-offs with security, technology, and human rights

The complex tradeoffs between trade, technology, and security will force the Biden administration to decide just how much “decoupling” with China is in the strategic and economic interest of the US.

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December 18, 2020

Are Big Tech firms monopolies? My long-read Q&A with Nicolas Petit

Nicholas Petit explores whether America’s Big Tech firms have become too powerful and whether they function as monopolies.

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December 17, 2020

AEI’s favorite books of 2020

With 2020 coming to a close, we asked some of our scholars to tell us about their favorite books that they read this year.

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