One of the main provisions of the 2012 Farm Bill is a “shallow-loss” program. This program is being portrayed as a safety net, but there are significant questions that must be examined before the program is enacted. At this event, Vince Smith and Barry Goodwin will discuss these questions and will release new research and analysis on the cost of shallow-loss programs.

The urgent threat posed by the growing Iran/Hezbollah network in Latin America finally captured the attention of a national audience Tuesday evening as several GOP presidential candidates acknowledged the problem in an AEI-Heritage Foundation debate that aired on CNN. AEI’s Venezuela-Iran project has documented this growing problem.

Is global governance fundamentally different from earlier forms of international cooperation? Is it a necessary response to the effects of globalization? Does the U.S. Constitution limit the ways the United States can engage in global governance? The AEI Project on Sovereignty will explore the effects of globalization on international law, institutions and the Constitution. 

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

A December 18 AEI conference examined the economic consequences of the wealth effect-the impact changes in wealth have on consumer spending.

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."

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits.