Ahead of the AEI/Heritage/CNN GOP debate on November 22, AEI analysts have prepared briefings about the top security issues that all Americans should be thinking about.

The American Enterprise Debates delve deeper into the core issues at the heart of our societal fabric. The series aims to challenge conventional wisdom and inform policy in a sequence of one-hour debates that center on simple yet provocative questions.

The Critical Threats Project is an AEI initiative dedicated to tracking and analyzing key and emerging national security threats to the United States.

For the most complete, most substantive analysis of what’s going on in Campaign 2012, keep listening to AEI’s Political Corner.

At the heart of the debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the nation’s education reform act which is overdue for reauthorization, is the question: what is the role of the federal government in K-12 education? Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who once supported it, now talk about getting the federal government out of education. Democratic reformers, meanwhile, insist that the federal government has a role in telling states how to identify, punish and fix low-performing schools — despite little evidence that Washington has been good at any of these tasks.  Over the last decade, AEI Education has been exploring these concerns.

On Dec. 14, 2011, President Obama proudly proclaimed the “end” to the Iraq war, announcing that “there is something profound about the end of a war that has lasted so long." For nearly a decade, AEI scholars have written on the conduct of the Iraq war, the foundations of the invasion and the prospects for a postwar Iraq.

It would be a mistake to continue down the path to European-style social democracy. The European model stifles human flourishing and erodes the institutions that make for a vibrant and sustainable civic life--as both experience and science show.