Using White House reporting claim of 12%, 1 in more than 30 women at MSU and OSU are sexually assaulted, not 1 in 5

Trigger Warning: If you are upset by the accurate reporting of facts, statistics and data about campus sexual assault please stop reading now. In a January 2014 report titled “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action” (which led to the creation of the “Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual...

Reform, Ohio Replacement Fund; Top Changes In NDAA

With the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act completed and headed to the president’s desk likely sometime next week, it’s useful to summarize the biggest policy changes therein. While most Republicans do not take the veto threat seriously, Mr. Obama will surely do just that. Still, when this bill...

The dangerous Euroskeptic myth

Critics are correct when they say the European Union is burdened by a needlessly complex regulatory apparatus. In 2005, the British think tank Open Europe estimated that 666,879 pages of legislation had been passed by Brussels since the EU’s inception in 1957—including, most famously, one on the curvature of bananas. And it’s also true that adoption of a common currency for political reasons without...

South Korea rising: From a ‘Hard Look at Hard Power’

The Strategic Studies Institute recently published A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners. Edited by  Gary J. Schmitt, codirector of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at AEI, and featuring contributions from...

Still feeling the crash

There are times when the public’s voice is truly distinct. The collective drop in public confidence in government at the end of the Watergate saga was one of those times. The mid-1980s produced another such moment when levels of optimism about the country soared. We saw a similar collective optimism in the early part of this century. Americans across the board felt unusually positive about the economy,...

Addressing threats to national security: North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as a nuclear weapons-armed state, is a threat to U.S. forces in Asia and allies South Korea and Japan, as well as a growing threat to the U.S. homeland. Its proliferation of nuclear weapons technology to rogue regimes poses an even broader threat to international security. In October 2006, 12 years after President Bill Clinton signed a nuclear freeze...

The expansion of Russia’s radical Islamism outside the North Caucasus

On the morning of July 19, 2012, Kazan the capital of Tatarstan, Russia’s largest autonomous republic and home of its largest Muslim ethnicity, the Tatars, was awakened by six gun shots and, fifteen minutes later, the explosion of a car bomb. The shots were aimed at Valiulla Yakupov, Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan and leading theologian who supervised Islamic education in Tatarstan, as he walked out of...

The mend of history: A study of the revisions to the AP US History framework

Key Points The College Board’s 2014 curriculum framework for teaching Advanced Placement US History provoked a well-deserved firestorm, which led to a significant revision in 2015. The controversy over the AP US History framework was not truly between liberals and conservatives. Rather, it was between some in academia, who see the darker elements of America’s past as what is truly worthy of emphasis,...

No, public pensions don’t boost economic output

The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) issued a report in July claiming that its benefit payments to retired government employees in 2013-2014 “supported 104,974 jobs throughout California and generated more than $15.6 billion in additional economic output.” Through an economic “multiplier effect,” in which pension benefit checks are spent and re-spent throughout the economy, CalPERS...

Reforming Higher Education Finance

In his testimony today before the Joint Economic Committee, Director of the Center on Higher Education Reform Andrew Kelly identifies the major design flaws in the federal student aid system and explains the four most promising reforms that would encourage colleges to compete on price and value: Cap Loan Programs that Allow Unlimited Borrowing and Reform Loan Forgiveness: Thanks to generous loan...

De nadelen van de euro worden elk jaar duidelijker

Het is zowaar inmiddels een tijdje rustig in Griekenland! Een mooi moment om een onderbelicht aspect van die gezellige monetaire unie van ons te bestuderen, namelijk haar effect op handel binnen de Europese Unie. De eurocraten hebben altijd verkondigd dat de euro, bovenop eeuwige vrede en immer escalerende economische groei, ook een forse toename van de grensoverschrijdende handel binnen de Europese...

US Food Aid

In advance of the Committee on Agriculture’s hearing entitled “US International Food Aid Programs” later this morning, AEI Visiting Scholar Vincent Smith has released a new report on Cargo Preference for Food Aid (CPFA). Smith explains that reforming US emergency food aid programs by eliminating wasteful practices and maximizing resources would help feed millions more people in dire need. Key points...

Fixing America’s ‘crumbling infrastructure’

The 405 freeway is viewed from above in Carson, California August 5, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake. In a new AEI Economic Perspectives paper, Richard Geddes presents a set of principles to guide policy making intended to facilitate the operation, maintenance and expansion of what politicians and civil...

America’s transportation challenges: Proposals for reform

ABSTRACT: Politicians and civil engineers alike often refer to America’s immense surface transportation system as “our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.” Major segments of the system are in need of renovation, and its problems are exacerbated by deferred maintenance and unstable, inadequate...

The Hillarycare sequel to Obamacare

As Obamacare heads into its third full year of implementation and the 2016 presidential election campaign kicks into high gear, expect the law’s leading intellectual authors and defenders to shift their tactics from defense to offense. They want to solidify Obamacare’s reach and fulfill their original vision. Their continued aim is to cement the federal government’s control over American health care...

Debate: What ails Republicans?

Francis Wilkinson is a former Democratic consultant who’s now a member of the Bloomberg View editorial board. Ramesh Ponnuru is a veteran conservative writer and policy expert and a Bloomberg View columnist. They exchanged e-mails about the Republican Party’s internal conflicts after the surprise resignation of Speaker of the House John Boehner. Francis: Given my jaundiced view...