August 12, 2025 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American ...

Debating whether SpaceX and similar firms should face higher tax bills is hardly unreasonable. Yet that misses the bigger picture. An important way taxpayers should assess the return on such public ...

Five years after the onset of COVID-19, chronic absenteeism—the percentage of students absent at least 10 percent of the school year—is falling gradually but remains far above pre-pandemic ...

Some are treating Mamdani’s rise as a chance to prove the far-left’s ideas don’t work. That posture is wrong. Wishing for the failure of a great city is not the mark of a serious governing movement—it ...

Technology and Innovation Recent Commentary AEI’s technology policy scholars offer research and commentary across a range of topics related to internet regulation, telecommunications ...

AOL, as a leading ISP innovating and challenging incumbent providers—and others like it—has played an important role in internet evolution. While dial-up may become a memory, its legacy will live on ...

AI over time, may change how doctors allocate their attention and effort. The challenge, and opportunity, is to harness AI’s power while keeping human expertise and judgment high enough to know when ...

Later this week here at THB I’ll be publishing two important pieces — one a guest post from a climate scientist on how his ...

To address the classical teacher pipeline challenge, policymakers should remove credentialing barriers, and schools should expand teacher fellowship programs, recruit from a wider range of colleges ...

The GENIUS Act creates stablecoins with near-zero transaction costs but poor privacy protections, where issuers profit while consumers bear hidden costs.

The WOPR Act represents a bold first step into uncharted regulatory territory, but like its cinematic namesake, it may discover that the only winning move is not to play at all.

The American response to Russia’s nuclear provocations has been underwhelming. In the likely event that today’s Anchorage summit fails to secure a just ceasefire for Ukraine, the Trump administration ...