Boosting economic growth in any sort of sustained way is really hard. The American public should always be skeptical of policy ideas promising to, say, add a full percentage point to real GDP growth, ...

Except for tiny Luxembourg, the United States spends more money on education than every other OECD country and exceeds the OECD average by over 50 percent. This is not just true of absolute levels of ...

In 2007, Warren Buffett entered into a famous bet that an unmanaged, low-cost S&P 500 stock index fund would out-perform an actively-managed group of high-cost hedge funds over the ten-year period ...

Last November, President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper entitled “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading ...

In 2026, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent estimates, US farmers and ranchers will receive about $55 billion in federal subsidies. A substantial share of these outlays ...

Housing has long been a cornerstone of the American dream and the nation’s economy, but a supply–demand imbalance has pushed the U.S. market into crisis, driving up prices and limiting workforce ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Research over the past 10 years has shown that the federal government funds over 40 employment and job-training programs across a host of federal agencies. 1 Several programs provide broad services to ...

Spend any time working in education—either in K–12 schools or universities—and before long you will come across the concept of “transferable skills.” These are skills such as creativity, collaboration ...

“The United States is a republic, not a democracy.” This is one of those oft-repeated expressions that one hears in civil discourse whose meaning nevertheless remains somewhat fuzzy. After all, the ...

Wars have a way of killing half-truths and lazy cliches. The present conflict in the Middle East is exploding the persistent myth that President Donald Trump’s America is withdrawing from the world.

In the following pages, the editors of this AEI Public Opinion Study look at how key demographic groups have voted over time. This compilation covers 13 presidential elections, and it will be ...