By keeping the focus on better health for real people, perhaps we’ll develop both the humility to recognize how little we still understand as well as the drive to ensure — and emphatically demand — that our advances ultimately wind up not only in papers, but also in patients.

Doing a better job of providing accessible, high-quality training, and helping students identify those programs, may not garner the headlines of a new research lab or football stadium, but it's a whole lot more likely to make a difference for workers and communities across the land.

When a group of countries block consensus on the most fundamental issues (such as promoting democracy or fighting terrorism or drugs) in a conscious effort to undermine the organization's effectiveness, 'consensus' becomes a weakness.

In a letter to congressional leaders, AEI economists and health experts Joseph Antos, Robert Helms, Thomas Miller and Kevin Hassett, along with a long list of distinguished colleagues, propose premium support as a way to alleviate Medicare cost overruns.

In his latest Economic Outlook, AEI economist John Makin offers a prescription to avoid the slow death of the US economy.

In this latest Middle Eastern Outlook, Iran expert Ali Alfoneh provides new information about the background, influences, and experiences of Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani.

In a new piece on American.com, AEI's Steven F. Hayward explains that the filibuster can be said to have worked according to the framers' design.

With the recent publication of its final rule, the federal government's Financial Stability Oversight Council is now in position to designate certain nonbank firms as "systemically important financial institutions" (SIFIs). There is probably no aspect of the Dodd-Frank Act that will have more damaging effects on competition in the U.S. financial system.