Last week, Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed a 165-page brief from Special Counsel Jack Smith, containing new revelations about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Writing in the New York Times, AEI scholar and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Landman Goldsmith explains why this filing, so close to the election, violates Justice Department rules and damages trust in the legal process.

As global birth rates continue to plummet, the total human population will soon decline for the first time since the Black Death of the 1300s. In an essay for Foreign Affairs, expert on global demography and Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy Nicholas Eberstadt explores how this “age of depopulation” will shape the future.

One of the most striking aspects of Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah has been the detonation of thousands of pagers secretly rigged with explosives. Chris Miller, author of Chip War, assesses the rising risk of hardware tampering against the US from our own adversaries in an age of increasing geopolitical competition and international supply chains.

The disastrous impacts of Hurricanes Helene and Milton have once again sparked claims that climate change is intensifying weather disasters. Benjamin Zycher looks at the data to show why media and scientists should be more cautious in making those claims.

This week marked the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel. AEI Foreign and Defense Policy scholars reflect on how October 7 changed Israel, the Middle East, and the world and assess the ongoing course of Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

For a historical diversion, watch a recording of Thursday’s AEI book event on The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt. AEI President Robert Doar and author Edward O’Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, explore how Roosevelt’s mother, wives, sisters, and daughters shaped his singular life.