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In times of national crisis, how do American institutions respond? AEI President Robert Doar joined Banter this week to discuss the work AEI is doing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and draw on his own experience serving in New York’s government in the years following the attacks of September 11.

Robert Doar is the president and Morgridge Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He joined AEI in 2014 to create a new body of work on poverty studies, after serving for more than 20 years in leadership positions in the social service programs of New York State and New York City under Gov. George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. AEI’s poverty studies program and the scholars in it have since become leading voices in the national discussion on the importance of work, family, and personal responsibility in human flourishing.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of Banter, part of the AEI Podcast Network. You can subscribe to Banter on iTunes, Stitcher, or Spotify, and archived episodes can be found at www.aei.org/tag/aei-banter. This is Banter episode #404, and was first released on March 26, 2020.

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With the world on coronavirus lockdown, there’s one question on everyone’s mind: When will things go back to normal? As US cities start to hit peak COVID numbers, states must prepare for a gradual recovery while also looking toward preventing the next pandemic.

Former FDA Commissioner and AEI scholar Dr. Scott Gottlieb joined the show to discuss his timeline and road map for reopening America for businesses and families. Dr. Gottlieb explains how our lives will change post-coronavirus, whether the coronavirus will return next year, and how much longer we’ll likely have to wait for a vaccine.

Dr. Gottlieb is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He returned to AEI in 2019 after serving as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. He has a medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and did his residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of AEI’s What the Hell is Going On?, with hosts Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen. For more episodes, find What the Hell on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google Podcasts

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Among those whose work has been most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic are teachers. In the course of just a few weeks, nearly all of the nation’s 3.6 million elementary and secondary school teachers have had to reorient their carefully crafted lesson plans for distance learning. What’s more, many of them have had mere days to familiarize themselves with online learning tools they haven’t previously used. 

How are teachers coping? On this episode of “The Report Card,” Nat Malkus speaks with three teachers about their experiences adapting to remote teaching. Joining are William Bell, a third-grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania; Alex Wendell, an eighth-grade English teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Columbia, Missouri; and Rob Casilli, a 10th-grade geometry teacher at Democracy Prep Harlem High School in New York City. 

We hope you enjoyed this episode of “The Report Card,” part of the AEI Podcast Network. For more episodes of “The Report Card,” find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. This episode was first released on April 2, 2020.

Enjoy this episode of Banter, part of the AEI Podcast Network. For more episodes of Banter, find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. This episode was first released on April 1, 2020.

How will the coronavirus shape the future of US national security? Will the world hold China responsible? How is the pandemic affecting America’s strategy toward Iran? And what is the greatest novel about foreign policy? AEI’s Kori Schake answers all these questions and more in this week’s episode of Banter.

Kori N. Schake is the director of foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She is the author of several books, most recently “America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?” (2018) and “Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony” (2017).

You can subscribe to Banter on iTunes, Stitcher, or Spotify, and archived episodes can be found at www.aei.org/tag/aei-banter. This is Banter episode #405.

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How often does the Supreme Court declare laws unconstitutional? What does this say about the Court’s place in American politics? These are timeless questions, of course, but Princeton University’s Keith Whittington sheds significant new light on them in his latest book. Drawing from Whittington’s comprehensive database of cases, Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present examines how judges have used their power throughout American history, and it upends conventional wisdom in the process. 

Enjoy this special episode of Unprecedential, featuring Whittington’s presentation of his book at AEI, his conversation with Adam White, and some sharp audience Q&A.

Are prison nurseries, that house incarcerated mothers and their young children, effective? Moreover, are they moral? And what impact do active fathers have the development of children, especially for girls?

These are some of the issues Ian and Naomi tackle in this episode. Together, they discuss the efficacy and ethics of prison nurseries. They then talk about the crucial role fathers play in child development, ending with a Congressional Black Caucus report on the suicide crisis among black youth.

Show Notes: – Explosion in the incarceration of women (0:37) – Prison nurseries (2:17) – Mass incarceration, nonmarital births, importance of fatherhood (7:01) – Suicide in the black community (11:26)

Resources:  – As More Mothers Fill Prisons, Children Suffer ‘A Primal Wound’ (The New York Times) – On prison nurseries (National Affairs) – Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America (Congressional Black Caucus)

Technology is becoming increasingly relevant to every part of our day-to-day lives; COVID-19 has shown us how necessary it is for our daily functioning. But how does it all work, and what’s coming next? AEI Visiting Fellow Shane Tews sits down with tech leaders to break down what’s going on behind your screens in the newest addition to the AEI Podcast Network, Explain to Shane!

In our first episode, Shane sits down with Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics and telecom expert. Entner explains why networks are able to handle the load of so many people teleworking amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Download this episode’s transcript here.

Enjoy this episode of The Report Card, part of the AEI Podcast Network. For more episodes of Report Card, find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. This episode was first released on March 23, 2020.

In just a few short weeks, the coronavirus has completely upended America’s K–12 school system. Forty-six states have closed their schools in response to the pandemic, disrupting the learning of some 54 million children.

On this episode, Nat Malkus speaks with John Bailey, an adviser to the Walton Family Foundation and visiting fellow at AEI. In 2005, while serving as deputy policy director at the US Department of Commerce, Bailey was on an interagency team that developed the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza and the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan. Bailey weighs in on schools’ responses to coronavirus and comments on their preparedness for the pandemic they are now confronting. 

Related Episodes: – Superindendents and Coronavirus – Teaching amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

Enjoy this episode of Hardly Working, part of the AEI Podcast Network. For more episodes of Hardly Working, find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Family is the seedbed of skill development for young children: relationships within the family influence a child’s development in all areas of their life. Furthermore, as family structure has morphed and shifted over the past few decades, so have the economic outcomes for children.

In this episode, Brent Orrell hosts Alan Hawkins of Brigham Young University and W. Bradford Wilcox of AEI to discuss marriage, family life, and the economics of family formation. Join us as they discuss the impact of family structure on long-term outcomes for kids.

This episode was first released AEI’s Hardly Working podcast on February 19, 2020.

When disaster strikes — a public health crisis, natural disaster, or terrorist attack — the executive branch is the first to respond. Our Constitution empowers the president to respond quickly to threats, allowing the other parts of government to get their footing. But crafting an energetic response is no easy task when it requires not just coordinating the White House’s own team, but also the rest of the executive branch. 

Two of AEI’s research directors know this firsthand. Kori Schake, AEI’s director of Foreign and Defense Policy, served on the White House’s National Security Council and in the State Department after 9/11; Ryan Streeter, AEI’s director of Domestic Policy, served on the White House’s Domestic Policy Council during Hurricane Katrina. They join Adam to discuss some of the near-impossible challenges of coordinating responses to disaster: How are responsibilities delegated? What kind of legal considerations come into play? How does the federal government remain cognizant of state needs during national emergencies? And much more.