A Letter From Robert Doar
Welcome to the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank based in Washington, DC. I’m AEI President Robert Doar. Established in 1938, AEI is a community of scholars and supporters dedicated to tackling our nation’s greatest challenges by producing work that promotes our institute’s core values: free people, free markets, and limited government. We promote economic opportunity for all, healthy institutions of civil society, and a strong American role in the world. While we are Washington-based, we are not Washington-focused.
AEI is, above all else, an intellectual community. Our scholars drive the competition of ideas on today’s most critical policy issues and draw attention to those that have yet to be widely recognized. They are commenting in the public square and reaching citizens across the country, all while offering the best ideas and independent empirical research to our nation’s leaders.
I hope you will explore our research and engage in our work. Thank you for visiting us.
Presidential Resources
More from Robert Doar >Letters to the Community
Highlighted Work
- A Conversation with Senator James Lankford on His New Book, Turnaround: America’s Revival
- AEI’s 2024 Annual Report
- Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
- The Comeback City
- Work Requirements and the Lost Lessons of 1996: An Interview with the Wall Street Journal
- The Bad Science Behind the Child Tax Credit Expansion
- Poverty in America, Before and After COVID-19
- “Free” Money Can Make Life Worse
Recent Work
- Thank You, Joe Manchin
- WTH: Do Americans Not Trust Experts? AEI President Robert Doar Explains
- 2024 Irving Kristol Award Remarks
- Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
- Fiscal Sanity Please, Senators
- Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority
- The Comeback City
- Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
- A Warning for Republicans from Former Senator John Danforth
- Work Is Essential to the American Dream
- Progressives Sell a Narrative About Racism While Ignoring Progress of Black America
- AEI vs. Brookings on Racial Bias in Housing
Straight Arrow News
- Affirmative Action Ruling Consistent with Struggle Against US Racist Past
- End of Pandemic SNAP Benefits a Chance to Improve Food Program
- Census Data Paints an Inaccurate Picture of Inequality in America
- American Men Need to Start Taking More Personal Responsibility
- Conference Spotlights America’s Inequality Challenges
- Cold War Provides History Lessons for Dealing with Russia-Ukraine Crisis