American Affairs Journal

As an engineer, I ran maintenance for a Fortune 500 pulp and paper company.

As Cold War-era geography meets modern warfare, the ironies are striking.

The post-Cold War liberal order has come to an end.

We have a rare bipartisan window of alignment to solve this.

Texas and California have taken sharply different approaches to surface transportation.

Since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, China has, barely without foreign notice, executed one of the most consequential economic strategies in modern history.

Civilian companies... defense startups, and traditional defense contractors could all benefit from the creation of a defense-critical patent box while improving U.S. military innovation and diversifying the national defense industrial base.

A wiser national pattern would encourage states to default toward local control with guardrails, such as those outlined above, rather than broad preemption that severs decision-makers from consequences.

America has its Promethean vision, which has undoubtedly served as a source of great wealth and vitality.

In October of 2026, Albertans will head to the polls for another referendum on a bundle of proposals that angle toward greater Albertan control over education, health care, the courts, and more power and leverage against the federal government.

What is the relationship between the rise and fall of U.S. global power and the ebb and flow of radical Islamic terrorism?

Theories of technological domination are compelling not only because of their critical force but also because of their consolatory effect.

In 1991, Michael McFaul felt that he was on the edge of utopia.

The actual effects of AI on the labor market still seem shrouded in deep uncertainty.

The United States is rich in resources and poor in foresight.

Our debt-heavy architecture is not a thought-out tenet of academic finance.