Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

When a benefit liability must be paid with 100 percent certainty, a plan should be considered "fully funded" only when it is capable of paying it with 100 percent certainty. Market valuation satisfies this criterion, while current accounting standards do not.

AEI resident scholar Kenneth P. Green's interview on The Reef Tank about his contributions to climate change education.

The Romney 4 percent Pentagon budget is no “spike”; it’s more like a return to normal, even very constrained military spending given the global mission of America’s armed forces.

In October 2007, Christopher DeMuth, president of AEI since December 1986, announced that he intended to relinquish his position before the end of 2008.

The inside story of why think tanks matter and what AEI has accomplished over the past twenty-one years.

Arthur C. Brooks was a Seattle-born liberal, but today he is president of the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right economic think tank in Washington, D.C.Brooks sees two competing visions for America’s future. To him, our excessive government spending and regulations have pushed us near a tipping point,...

Francoise Hollande’s defeat of Americain Nicolas Sarkozy does matter when it comes to foreign policy because Sarkozy has arguably been the most alliance-friendly French leader in decades—perhaps ever.