For the past few months, the military situation in Ukraine has steadily deteriorated. As the West searches for a path to victory, or at least a decent peace, Hal Brands explains why neither Donald Trump’s, Kamala Harris’s, nor Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plans can credibly bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion.

Trump and Harris are similarly uninterested in seriously addressing our most significant domestic challenge: the growing national debt. Writing in the Financial Times, Michael R. Strain explores the disastrous costs of ignoring this problem over the next four years.

In contrast, energy policy has been a major issue for both campaigns. In a symposium on the election and regulatory policy, Benjamin Zycher warns that both candidates’ policies, for different reasons, could undermine domestic fossil fuel production.

Despite the failures of the federal public health bureaucracy during the pandemic, there has been little political interest in institutional reform. Scott Gottlieb argues that Congress can revitalize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by refocusing it on its original mission.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States continues to attract criticism for its seemingly expansive definition of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. In a new AEI report, Gary J. Schmitt and Joseph Bessette use founding-era history to make sense of the opinion’s distinction between “official” and “unofficial” acts.