by jpitney | Mar 27, 2021 | Budget, Congress, Economic Policy, Presidency
On March 25, AEI and Claremont McKenna College’s Salvatori Center hosted a panel of experts to assess whether Congress can regain control over the nation’s finances and thus fortify representative government. After an introduction from AEI’s John C. Fortier, AEI’s...
by jpitney | Feb 15, 2021 | Presidency
This Presidents Day, join Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt for a “masterclass” to understand the Articles of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, how a bill becomes a law, the concept of...
by jpitney | Feb 14, 2021 | Congress, Constitution, Impeachment, Presidency
Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE): “An impeachment trial is a public declaration of what a president’s oath of office means and what behavior that oath demands of presidents in the future. But here’s the sad reality: If we were talking about a Democratic president, most...
by jpitney | Feb 10, 2021 | Congress, Presidency, Separation of Powers
Nan Swift at R Street: Student loan debt is not something that can be solved by the simple wave of a wand or stroke of a pen. Rather, the complicated moral and economic considerations of cancelling student loan debt should be examined within the process of debate...
by jpitney | Jan 22, 2021 | civic virtue, Lincoln, Presidency
Mitt Romney at Deseret News: My reading of history suggests what can heal social sickness. First, a great leader who “calls upon our better angels” can bring us together. Churchill rallied his nation to resist and defeat Nazism. Roosevelt elicited the endurance that...
by jpitney | Jan 13, 2021 | Congress, Impeachment, Presidency
Wyoming Congresswoman and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) released the following statement ahead of votes in the House this week: “On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy...
