History suggests diffusion matters as much as invention. Unlike earlier ”general-purpose technologies” that took decades to lift growth, early evidence suggests AI’s lag may be shorter. If so, Walmart ...

France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and ...

After Portland, Oregon, first used its new proportional ranked-choice voting electoral system to elect city council members in November 2024, it is unclear what style of politics will emerge in future ...

Although President Trump has been accused of “always chickening out,” he has not shied away from applying pressure on countries ranging from Iran to Venezuela. In recent months, however, Trump has ...

Australia previous set and missed impossible targets for emissions reduction. The outcome for the 2035 emissions reduction targets will inevitably be the same as for the 2020 targets — a big miss. As ...

The Jimmy Kimmel suspension controversy illustrates complex First Amendment issues when FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened legal action over Kimmel's political commentary, raising questions about ...

The AEI Housing Center's Housing Supply Playbooks provide customized recommendations for 6,600+ areas in the U.S. that would grow housing supply by 1.5 million homes per year.

The core problem in 340B runs deeper than poor oversight. The law requires steep discounts for purchased drugs but does not specify that the savings should be passed on to patients and insurance ...

If productivity has in fact been stronger than the official numbers show, then interventions in manufacturing may have delivered a better return on public dollars than either their champions or ...

More college students are “learning with their feet” by changing their majors to fields with better earning potential.

Baseball’s robot umpires may look like a narrow sports experiment. In fact, they are a parable for the economy at large: Technology pares back one craft, redistributes value, and leaves the real ...

On September 16, 2025, the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the purpose and use of the tax-exempt status widespread in the hospital sector. In this ...