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While a new Fed chair might immediately lower short-term rates, the longer-term rates that matter to households and businesses – rates for business loans and home mortgages, for example – are ...
The Air Force’s next-generation Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program is racked by cost overruns and calls to eliminate its funding. And yet Sentinel’s troubled development ...
While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation safeguards an individual’s right to be digitally “forgotten”, what assurances exist regarding an individual’s—or a society’s—“right to be ...
The U.S. Embassy for Yemen, meanwhile, operates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, almost 850 miles away. Geographically, that is akin to running the U.S. Embassy for the United Kingdom from Zagreb ...
A popular myth peddled by populists on both the left and right is that America has been in steady decline since the 1970s. A more honest accounting of the facts reveals a different story—one of ...
The ability of technology companies to assert the First Amendment rights of their users to receive and engage in online speech is essential for expressive freedom and product development.
Because it is a slogan rather than a policy, “energy dominance” might mean a serious effort at deregulation, allowing market forces to work, or it might mean more production of efficient ...
The war with Israel has prompted generational turnover in Iranian military leadership. Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian military officers during the recent 12-day conflict, eliminating many of ...
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.
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).
AEI and the Center for Democracy & Technology invite you to a panel on federal data-collection efforts, exploring their implications for privacy and civil liberties and how to ensure data use ...