Stiff Headwinds for Civic Education
Note: On April 13, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio spoke at Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance’s Colloquium Series, responding to Dr.
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Questions and Answers About Work Requirements Provisions in the House Republican Debt Limit Proposal, Part II
Earlier today we reviewed details about a proposal to expand work requirements in safety net programs. Below we outline some additional questions and
Questions and Answers About Work Requirements Provisions in the House Republican Debt Limit Proposal, Part I
A key component to addressing poverty is to increase employment. One way to increase employment is to lessen the work disincentives in safety net
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The Rights and Responsibilities of AI, Seen Through the Autonomy-Automaton Lens
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to advance, one question seems to recur: do machines enjoy legal rights and responsibilities? If
Amnesty International gets International Law Wrong in Africa
Fighting continues in and around Las Anod [Laascaanood], the capital of Somaliland’s Sool district. Almost five months into the conflict, the
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Thinking About R&D Taxation and the 2017 Tax Law
The exciting technological advances of late, from ChatGPT to the Starship rocket, shouldn’t distract Washington from pro-growth policy advances.
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The Student Loan Payment Pause Favors the Wealthy by $20 Billion
Last week, UVA professor Sarah Turner posted a piece at Brookings on the regressive nature of the federal student loan payment pause titled
Congress Needs Better Oversight on Foreign Force Funding
When Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin traveled to Iraq last month, he stood alongside Iraqi Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani but declined to meet
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The AI Revolution Raises Terrifying Questions about Virtual Child Pornography
It was probably inevitable that the artificial intelligence (AI) discourse would eventually turn to virtual pornography. Earlier this week, CBS News
Yemen News Not as Good as It Seems
Recent negotiations between Saudis and Houthis in Yemen’s capital and the subsequent confidence-building step of a prisoner exchange have raised
The Gender Gap in Higher Education
Universities around the country have become ground zero in the culture wars as stories of students shutting down open expression and differing views
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The Tyranny of the Comments Section: Unforced Errors in Online Content Moderation Down Under
British-American Nobel literature laureate T.S. Eliot’s dramatic Thomas Beckett character once propitiously opined that “the last temptation is
New Book “Mediocrity” Distills the Concerns About Public Schooling
For a very long time, the impulse to denounce “failing government schools” has done for conservative school reformers what “defund the
The Title IX Trap
Last week, I wrote an article in Newsweek arguing that despite news coverage characterizing President Joe Biden’s proposed regulation on
Ukraine Shows the Need for Speed
In Washington, there’s no shortage of hot takes on what lessons the United States should be learning from the war in Ukraine. Ask 10 people this