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For a long time, advocates and policymakers in the higher education space were fixated on improving "access" to higher education. "Value" should be the new buzzword in higher education.
The post Value Needs to Be the Next Buzzword in Higher Education appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Iranian proxies throughout the Middle East are involved in a multifront escalation. The correct approach for the United States is to engage the Middle East consistently through this crisis and beyond to promote long-term stability.
The post Iran's Hand in Attacks Targeting US, Israel appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The EU-US Data Privacy Framework eases data transfers for multinational corporations and enhances private data security by creating rules and standards for data flows.
The post Empowering Responsible and Compliant Practices: Bridging the Gap for US Citizens and Corporations with the New EU-US Data Privacy Framework appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have faced a lot of challenges related to their daily work. This article introduces a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, which particularly focuses on methodological challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a brief review of the literature as well as the studies in this issue, we argue that the pandemic has sparked significant methodological innovations with respect to design, data collection, study documentation, and scholarly collaboration. We distinguish two types of innovations, both conceptualized as the outcome of an unprecedented external shock. First, "methodological compromises" that enabled data collection during the pandemic, but are inferior to established approaches. These methodological compromises, therefore, may be abandoned in post-pandemic times. Second, there are also "methodological game changers" that are superior to classic approaches and thus may prevail in the long run. Regardless of the type, we call scholars in the social and behavioral sciences to systematically test, compare, and evaluate the methodological innovations brought to us as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AbstractStudies of the "people's spring," the period of unprecedented social mobilization in Argentina in the early 1970s, frequently omit rural women even though they were among the sectors that rallied for social justice. In most of Latin America at the time, rural women were prevented from equal participation in social movements; in contrast, rural women in northeastern Argentina actively participated in the Movimiento Agrario Misionero (MAM). This article uses letters and newspaper articles in Amanecer agrario to answer two questions: First, what did womanhood mean for rural women in northeastern Argentina during the early 1970s? Second, what did the "people's spring" mean for these same women? Although the movement split, with women from small farms generally wanting MAM to expand its efforts to broader societal problems and women from medium farms generally wanting MAM to stay focused on the concerns of Misiones farmers, throughout it all, rural women communicated their hopes, desires, and concerns for themselves, their families, and their communities.

The conflict and discord between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois regarding their premise and approach to racial uplift for Black Americans have been very well documented. While Washington sought equality with accommodation, DuBois functioned through agitation. However, their biophilic accord and unity within the natural environment have been both underrecognized and underappreciated. As an honor to these esteemed racial and social justice giants, this special issue article reveals the universality of their environmental justice ideologies while also celebrating the beauty, power and foresight of their ecological language in script and speech.

A closer read of Timothy B. Lee's 2008 paper on net neutrality highlights the weaknesses of the neutrality argument and compares an over-regulated internet to other inefficient, policed industries.
The post A Durable Argument: Network Neutrality Without Regulation appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Two recently published briefs point to the urgent need for fiscal restraint and what such restraint might entail. After years of both parties procrastinating, the challenge is daunting.
The post A Fiscal Crisis, and What It Will Take to Avoid It, Comes into View appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Research shows that Americans have a generally poor understanding of welfare programs. Providing information about such programs has the potential to shape public preferences, but we argue that such effects may differ based on the content of the information and its correspondence with existing ideological beliefs. Using original survey experiments embedded in the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and through Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we analyze how the relationship of ideology with welfare programs varies in response to different types of negative information about the program, and different descriptions of policy design. We find that information about inadequate benefits has a larger negative impact on welfare support for liberals than for conservatives but that both liberals and conservatives may be equally concerned about fraud and inefficiency. Other information about policy design has the expected conditional effect: state (as opposed to federal) funding and short time limits for benefits are more appealing to conservatives than liberals.

AEI has been monitoring maritime attacks and is now releasing its Maritime Incident tracker with information about incidents starting in 2019.
The post State-Sponsored Attacks on Merchant Shipping: A Growing Scourge appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

There would never be a good time for the global economy to be subjected to a spike in international oil prices. However, today would seem to be a particularly inopportune time for such a spike.
The post Oil's Long Shadow over the Global Economy appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Social media platforms have a duty to productively contribute to the global conversation surrounding Hamas' attack on Israel while also working against the spread of harmful misinformation and abuse on their platforms.
The post A Few Suggestions for Social Media Giants Struggling to Handle the Hamas Assault on Israeli Civilians, Part I appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Now is the time for the Palestinians' most loyal supporters to ante up for their friends, and for Hamas' underwriters to pay for the damage their proxies are inflicting. But why is the responsibility falling onto the American taxpayer?
The post About That $100 Million to the West Bank and Gaza appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

At the start of this conflict, I wrote, "China has effectively thrown its lot in with Hamas." Beijing has only made its choice more apparent in the days since.
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Far too many colleges and universities have made disingenuous statements about Hamas and Israel, and donors and numerous groups are now appropriately holding schools accountable for this disgusting, illiberal behavior.
The post Colleges’ Inexcusable Cowardice on Hamas appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.