Congrats to Tony Mills, Will Rinehart, The Honest Broker, Shane Tews and the rest of the Center for Science, Technology, and Energy American Enterprise Institute on the launch of their excellent new website: ctse.aei.org

'Only by embracing the art and science of decision-making under uncertainty can we truly harness the potential of AI while mitigating its risks and preparing for its surprises.' Very good Bronwyn Howell American Enterprise Institute aei.org/technology-and…

Germany has over-relied on Russian fuel and the Chinese export market.

Now, its economy is stumbling, writes AEI's Desmond Lachman.
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'While some policy changes and new data on earnings are indeed needed, the scope of O’Malley’s changes will likely cost taxpayers billions of dollars'

AEI's Mark Warshawsky on SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley's first months in office | The Baltimore Sun

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“Elites have advanced ideas that devalue marriage, cast aside normative guardrails that forge strong families, passed laws that penalize marriage for working class & superintended rise of a new economy that [puts] marriage out of reach for millions…” thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/04/93197/

Gotta mingle! Discussing school absenteeism with Nat Malkus of American Enterprise Institute now SiriusXM nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NRI Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellow Dominic Pino interviews Kevin R Kosar from American Enterprise Institute about Edward Banfield's book Government Project discussing collectivized farming during the New Deal era.

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“As the President himself suggested just a few years ago, such broad forgiveness is simply bad policy.”

From AEI’s Beth Akers: Biden knows student loan cancellation is a bad idea.
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NEW | US CENTCOM preemptively struck eight Houthi drones in Houthi-controlled Yemen on April 10.

CENTCOM assessed that the drones presented an imminent danger to commercial and military vessels in the region.

Stop public support for the American Educational Research Association washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

'These are the foundational agreements that will allow the United States to be much more effective in how it operates in both the Philippines and in Japan.'

AEI's Zack Cooper on this week's developments in US-Japan and US-Philippines relations.

Russian soldiers arriving in Niger say they want to take over the US base in northern Niger. I wrote about this potential situation and its implications shortly after the Nigerien junta annulled US defense cooperation in mid-March. I'll hopefully have another update today. 1/2

“As for marriage, an institution that has taken a beating [in] decades, more & more evidence is piling up from scholars that being wed makes majority of people happier than they otherwise would be, as Brad Wilcox has argued.” Arthur Brooks The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The latest slew of repression in Afghanistan exposes the naiveté of Western analysts who argued that the Taliban would be more moderate the second time around, writes AEI's Sadanand Dhume.
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New from yours truly for Fordham Institute: The case for curriculum is in equal measure the case for making the classroom job doable by the teachers we have--81 percent of whom say they 'just have too much work.'

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From AEI's Frederick M. Hess and Mike McShane: the right has a unique opportunity to reform education — without the social media-led culture war.
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'It almost seems like our institutions are so focused on ideological agendas and political sloganeering, they have lost sight of the basic things that we want the government to do.' Naomi Schaefer Riley AEI's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility @AEI
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“It’s a big question if Russian society will actually sustain the sacrifices... Putin is in a marathon against the West, Ukraine, and his own society.”

AEI's Leon Aron quoted on Russian troop recruitment in a new piece by Jack Detsch.
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'The message that Senator Warren sent yesterday was clear: it’s her way or the highway, the Constitution be damned.'

Beth Akers at AEIdeas:
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NEW | A pro-Russian & Wagner Group–linked African outlet claimed that Russian Africa Corps soldiers will “soon” deploy to Niger, supporting CTP’s assessment that the Nigerien junta may contract Russian soldiers to help fill the gaps left by departing Western assistance. 1/4