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Does it feel like America is coming apart today? Americans had real reason to worry in the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s, and each time they saw the country through.
Watch AEI's Yuval Levin explain why we can too.
Democrats were highly mobilized, independent voters went almost 60 percent for the blue team and a lot of Republicans just stayed home, writes AEI’s @ChrisStirewalt
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Don’t bet on the world giving Washington a breather: President Trump confronts crises and challenges that will consume his last two years, writes AEI’s @HalBrands
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AEI’s @MEaglen on NPR’s On Point: The Navy’s conducting four missions alone right now in or around the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. One of which the Chief of Naval Operations said the Navy is too small to perform at, for an extended period.
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In a new working paper, AEI’s John G. Ferrari, @ToddHarrisonDC, and Elaine McCusker illustrate the range of choices available and the difficult tradeoffs Congress must consider when finalizing the FY 2027 defense budget.
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Republicans should use their time in the wilderness to build a true affordability agenda for higher education. When the political pendulum swings back, they must be ready to tackle the cost of living for real, writes AEI’s @PrestonCooper93
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Washington’s deepest problem isn’t an overreaching president. It’s a Congress that won’t use its power. In this full interview, AEI’s Yuval Levin explains how we got here, and why the fix is more within reach than it looks.
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Students who have in the past few years received better reading instruction and more robust school choice options will bear the consequences of Republicans’ electoral losses, writes AEI’s @MrDanielBuck
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No doubt the president will confront other grave foreign policy challenges in the coming years... But the stakes in Iran are greatest, writes AEI’s @continetti
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In an economy with high prices and above-target inflation, President Trump’s trade war was a political liability. Exit polls showed that nearly two-thirds of midterm voters think Trump’s tariffs have hurt the economy, writes AEI’s @MichaelRStrain
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NEW | The Houthis are seeking to end Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the war in Yemen by demanding Saudi recognition of Houthi sovereignty, which would create conditions for the Houthis to advance their grand strategic objective of controlling all of Yemen. The Houthis have structured a campaign to compel Saudi Arabia to abandon its military intervention in Yemen, which would undermine the Yemeni government’s ability to resist future Houthi efforts to seize the rest of the country.
AEI's @MichaelRStrain in @Bloomberg: A Democratic-run Senate provides “a marginal reduction in the threat to Fed independence, but it doesn’t strike me as a sea change."
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"They're all at risk," AEI's @ToddHarrisonDC said of reconciliation-backed programs. "My base expectation is nothing happens on the defense budget."
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🧵As Republicans seek to learn lessons for their post-Trump future, it is important for the party to recognise that the distinctly Trumpian elements of the president’s agenda have failed to achieve their objectives and to advance economic prosperity.
It seems to me that the message of this election is pretty much the same as the message of all of our national elections for at least a decade now. The message is: “No, thank you,” writes AEI's Yuval Levin.
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Russian forces have made effectively zero net gains in 2026 and sustained over 40,000 casualties per month since July.
AEI's @FredWKagan explains how Ukraine used determination and skill to find solutions to Russia’s size advantage.
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I spoke to @ABC yesterday about what's next for the parties. abcnews.com/video/137859587/
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The Cheating Double Standard Nobody Talks About - @dcoxpolls
AEI’s @JimPethokoukis: You’re hearing a lot of what we’ve just heard: “Gridlock is good. Markets like gridlock.” But none of those analyses have really taken into account the sweeping nature of this Democratic victory.
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