American Wonk

Senator Marco Rubio (R – FL) joined Avik Roy Thursday morning to kick off the AEI/Ricochet Podcast Summit. Among the topics covered are the future of the economy, the future of the Republican Party, confronting China and the challenges of the 21st Century.

One of the core promises that President Trump made on the campaign trail was to fix the broken veterans’ health care system. In 2017, he nominated David Shulkin, a holdover from the Obama administration, to be his Veterans Affairs Secretary. But Shulkin spent most of his tenure opposing efforts to reform the VA, because reform, […]

When the campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama mined users’ Facebook feeds for information about how they might vote in 2008, Obama was praised as an innovator. But this spring, a firestorm of controversy enveloped Facebook, after the New York Times reported that Cambridge Analytica mined data from Facebook users to help elect Donald Trump. So […]

Paul Winfree, director of economic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, left that post in January 2017 to take a senior policy position in the Trump White House. A year later, he’s back at Heritage, and—you guessed it—spending more time with his family. On this episode of American Wonk, Paul talks freely about his year […]

Today, we’re taking about President Trump’s new proposal on his signature issue: immigration reform. In January, Trump put forward a surprising new immigration plan, which would some expected things, like build a wall. But it would also provide a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million children brought here illegally by their parents: the so-called […]

Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the biggest policy controversy in the tech community: the impending vote by the Federal Communications Commission to abandon the Obama-era effort to regulate the internet, known as “net neutrality.” What is “net neutrality?” Why has this highly technical topic aroused the passions of so many people in Silicon […]

Today, our topic is the most important policy debate in America right now: the Republican effort to overhaul the Internal Revenue Code. The House has passed its version of tax reform, and it’s now up to Senate Republicans to finish the job. Do they have the votes? What changes might be made to the bill […]

On this episode of American Wonk, our guest is Larry Kudlow: Contributing Editor at National Review, Senior Contributor at CNBC, and host of the “Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC. Larry joins us to talk about three hot economic topics. First, we discuss President Trump’s upcoming appointment of a new chairman for the Federal Reserve. Why […]

Today, our topic is the struggling Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. In late September, a handful of Senate Republicans announced that they wouldn’t support the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal Obamacare’s expansion of health insurance coverage, and replace it with block grants to the states, using the same pot of money. So where do […]

Today, our topic is the Republican plan—or plans plural—to overhaul the Internal Revenue Code. Some people think tax reform is easier than health care reform, but I’m not so sure. Congress hasn’t passed meaningful tax reform in more than 30 years. So how should we reform the tax code? Are Congressional Republicans on the right track? And how […]