Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

The Defending Defense series brings together Senator John McCain (R-AZ), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Representative "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, for a discussion of US defense spending and America's global commitments.

Acreeping coup against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia is threatening the foundation of the U.S.-Russia relationship and raising the specter of a new era of cold peace between Washington and Moscow.

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 can play in economic recovery.

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post entitled Romney’s wrong-headed assertions about Iran. The piece is so… Amazing, one hardly knows where to begin.

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...

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey is getting an appetite for political controversy.

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) will deliver a major policy address at AEI on the path to victory in Afghanistan.