Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

Since President Donald Trump declared his “liberation Day” on April 2, touching off a bout of severe financial market turmoil, the financial media has resounded with reports that the end of the U.S.

Higher tariffs would adversely affect agricultural imports, which would harm US consumers, but the trade actions could also provoke counter-retaliatory actions by affected exporters. Indeed, Canada, ...

Some conservative groups are asking the Trump administration to index capital gains for inflation by executive order. Tax reform should improve the tax treatment of saving and investment, but indexing ...

The new endowment tax will subject the country's wealthiest institutions to hundreds of millions of dollars in tax liability.

Trump's push to slash outdated nuclear-energy regulations is an overdue victory. But the president’s wrongheaded proposal to gut basic scientific research spending undermines the very engine of ...

The treatment of personal information as property is not a policy recommendation but a reflection of how courts and individuals are already behaving under common law.

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of ...

The inconsistency marking the Trump administration's first six months in office highlights the absence of a coherent US grand strategy, a deficiency likely to have crippling long-term consequences.

David Gergen was one of those rare public figures whose reputation preceded him. Gergen’s legacy was not only tied to the four presidents he served but to the thousands of students he mentored, ...

AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford S ...

The American Enterprise Institute’s Academic Programs team connects colleges and universities with the ideas and networks of AEI. We seek the renewal of healthy civic engagement on college ...