The AEI Events Podcast

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Foster care and prison: Connecting the (right) dots Apr 16, 2020

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Join AEI's Naomi Schaeffer Riley as she hosts a panel discussing the challenges faced by foster youth and how to keep them out of the "prison pipeline"

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Trade Is Not A Four Letter Word: with Fred Hochberg Apr 09, 2020

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Join AEI's conversation with Fred Hochberg, "Trade Is Not A Four Letter Word", a practical, insightful, and enjoyable defense of American free trade policy.

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‘A Time to Build’ with Yuval Levin Apr 02, 2020

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Join AEI's Tim Carney and Yuval Levin in a discussion of the vital role institutions play in American life, and how to revive their effectiveness.

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Practical perspectives on ‘A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty’ Mar 26, 2020

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Research suggests that childhood poverty impedes children’s healthy growth and success in adulthood. In 2015, Congress asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study of child poverty in the US and identify evidence-based policies to reduce it. The recently released report, “A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty,” describes two packages […]

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Europe’s populist and Brexit economic challenge Mar 19, 2020

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Europe’s political landscape is becoming much more challenging, as evidenced by the strong showing of populist parties in the recent European parliamentary elections and by the deepening Brexit crisis. The question remains: how serious are these challenges are to the European economic outlook? What economic policies can meet these challenges? MORE RESOURCES: – Italy (Lorenzo Forni) […]

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‘The American Dream Is Not Dead’: With Michael Strain Mar 12, 2020

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Does the American Dream still exist? While politicians disagree, AEI's Michael Strain, and the data, say yes (for now). Join his talk on the real threat.

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Age of iron: Past, present, and future of conservative foreign policy Mar 05, 2020

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How did we get to a foreign policy like Trump's? AEI's Colin Dueck and Hal Brands discuss the path of conservative foreign relations that led to this point.

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Negotiating with China during peacetime, crisis, and conflict Feb 27, 2020

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Many imagine how a war with China could start, but how would it end? AEI's Oriana Skylar Mastro discusses how both sides could come to the negotiating table

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The land of endless wars: What really causes instability in the Middle East? Feb 20, 2020

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The Middle East remains in turmoil despite decades of US policy initiatives seeking a solution. AEI discusses the root issues behind the region's volatility

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Containing Ebola: How to fight the DRC’s Ebola Epidemic Feb 13, 2020

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Before the Coronavirus, there was Ebola. AEI looks back at a June 2019 conversation about lessons learned and challenges faced in the last health crisis.

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