U.S. envoys and Iranian diplomats had met several times in Muscat, Oman, and Geneva, Switzerland to try to hash out a deal over Iran’s nuclear program. Some Iranian officials even claimed there had ...

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 ...

Members of AEI’s National Council are business and community leaders from across the country and abroad who are committed to the values and success of the Institute. They are ambassadors for AEI and ...

In an era when so much of American life feels abstract and nationalized, those local ties may be more important than ever. They remind us that citizenship does not begin with ideology. It begins with ...

The observation that tariffs cannot replace the income tax is not new. Several experts have made the same point. The math is straightforward: We cannot replace the income tax with tariffs.

The Census Bureau recently released data on average and median home sizes for 2013 and those data are displayed in the top chart above. Here are some details: 2. Meanwhile, the average household size ...

The chart above displays the female shares of US bachelor’s degrees annually from 1971 to 2019 for the 16 major academic fields according to recently updated data from the Department of Education’s ...

The Eurasian Century is a historical and strategic tour de force, broad-ranging and full of insights. Above all, it is a necessary book, an analysis that should be required reading for everyone who ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

In most circumstances, the Speaker of the House and the Committee on Rules (Rules Committee) effectively control what bills are considered on the floor of the House of Representatives. Therefore, rank ...

There is a strong case for governmental provision of food to children whose parents can’t—or won’t—feed them. But that’s not the question at hand. The question is whether the government should feed ...

Most Americans today continue to be raised in a religious denomination or tradition. Only 12 percent of Americans report being raised outside a formal religious tradition. Half (50 percent) report ...