Earlier this year, President George W. Bush established the President’s Commission on the United States Postal Service (USPS), which issued its final report and recommendations in August. In an effort to educate and invigorate public discussion on postal reform sparked by the commission, AEI has held a series of...

The President’s Commission on the Postal Service report is a thoughtful, concise, yet thorough evaluation of the U.S. Postal Service.

The Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States

In the latest Financial Services Outlook, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) housing experts Peter Wallison and Edward Pinto explain how decades of government intervention have gravely harmed America's housing market.

The banking industry suffered credit crises in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. An unavoidable conclusion is that its loan loss reserves were in all cases too small. 

Saturday’s NYT had a piece bylined by James Risen about the Ghosts of Iraq Haunting CIA in Tackling Iran. It’s a Captain Obvious story in conception.

The prospect of an attack on the Supreme Court and other institutions of government is sobering. The Continuity of Government Commission has identified recommendations to ensure that the presidential succession system functions to produce a legitimate president in a timely fashion and that Congress can continue to operate even shortly after a catastrophic terrorist attack.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council is now prepared to designate 'systematically important financial institutions', another step towards creating an unhealthy and dangerous relationship between the biggest financial firms and the federal government. Read AEI financial services expert Peter Wallison's detailed insights on how this change poses a serious threat to the US financial system.