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The Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy declares that the United States has entered a renewed period of great power competition. To pursue this new strategic direction, the Department of Defense requires new budgetary resources, new operational concepts, and energetic oversight from the country’s political leadership — in other words, partners in Congress. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) [...]

Congress and the National Defense Strategy

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As a new Congress begins, how might policymakers tackle the newest challenges of America’s evolving opioid crisis? In conversation with AEI’s Sally Satel, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) discusses the ongoing nationwide efforts to curb opioid misuse and addiction, and how recent legislation provides crucial resources to the communities that need it most. Steve Williams, the [...]

Navigating the opioid crisis with Rep. Greg Walden

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On December 14, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the current version of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate was unconstitutional. Join our AEI panel to learn how the severability law should be applied properly as this case advances. If an appellate court upholds the district court decision on constitutional issues, it [...]

Sense and Severability

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Why do so many people believe the American dream is dead? Growing inequality, rising rates of deadly addiction, and heightening political strife are the disturbing realities threatening American lives today, especially the working class. The root of the problem comes from a lack of community. The dissolution of our most cherished institutions — nuclear families, [...]

Working-class agony: Who’s to blame?

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President Donald Trump has made his foreign policy views clear through the National Security Strategy, emphasizing great power competition, national interest, and alliance and trade relationships. How does this then change the Senate’s role in conducting foreign policy and advancing America’s national security interests? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joins AEI’s Colin Dueck to discuss what [...]

The Senate’s role in foreign policy with Sen. Ted Cruz