In our second debate, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, delivers a critique of the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing, and John H. Makin, resident scholar in economics at AEI, counters in support of QE2 and the role monetary policy...

While I agree that there's no question that America's ability to field a military second to none depends on our economic fundamentals, the position of "superpower" seems to me a bit more complex.

The widely acclaimed American Enterprise Debates returns with another big question for our times: how much quantitative easing is too much?

Why aren't voters moving to the left, toward parties favoring bigger government, during what increasingly looks like an economic depression? Ordinary Americans don't want money as much as they want honor.

After two terms of the Bush presidency, the Republican Party faces severe political and policy challenges. Despite a divisive Democratic presidential nomination contest, the GOP’s presumptive nominee is struggling to compete for funds and votes. The outlook in Congress is worse. Since losing majorities in both chambers in 2006, the...

The evolution of American politics and policy has been intimately bound up with demographic and geographic change. The arrival of the GI generation, the advance of suburbanization, the rise of the baby boomers, and women’s entry into the workforce all had profound effects on our society. Today, new demographic and...

The tea party movement opposes the culture of dependence inherent in many of the president's policies, recognizing the long term societal implications of those policies.

The chained Consumer Price Index can be used to index tax brackets and federal benefit payments.