Freedom Cities (new municipalities built by private developers over a 5-25 year time horizon on suitable federal land) can offer abundant housing, economic opportunity, and a fresh start.

Traditionally, as worker productivity has surged, so has American living standards. By contrast, the post-1970 digital era, dazzling as it is, hasn’t transformed everyday existence with the same ...

The Census Bureau’s estimates dramatically overstate the share of seniors living in poverty. For years the bureau has been working to create more accurate elderly poverty data, and those data show a ...

When presented with problematic speech, the first line of defense is more speech—not censorship. Efforts at the state or federal level to regulate AI-generated content should respect this principle if ...

Two of the more subtle yet important aspects of the US Supreme Court’s June decision in the First Amendment case of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton are the majority’s apparent embrace of a ...

The meteoric rise in the gold price since the start of the Trump administration could be signaling that real trouble lies ahead in the dollar and bond markets. The Trump administration would do well ...

When young men search for role models, MLB can step up and so can fathers and men generally. They can all show real strength is about how well you lead, serve, pass something better forward and ...

To truly modernize accreditation, technology implementation could adapt advanced risk assessment practices used in other sectors to the higher education context. For example, in the financial services ...

Teach students not only how government functions, but why self-government is worth preserving. Show them that politics can be serious without being cynical, that disagreement can deepen understanding ...

AEI has commissioned six reports on higher education accountability from a bipartisan group of experts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and have varying approaches to ...

At universities all around the United States, parents have dropped off their kids at college and fall semester has begun. You know what that means—time for anti-Israeli activists to ramp up on campus!

Federal oversight of higher education institutions is outdated, relying on a 60-year-old accreditation model that rewards compliance over performance, fails to track outcomes, and leaves students ...