Two years on, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the course of global affairs, transforming international affairs, military strategy, and the global economy. In a new edited volume, War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World, Hal Brands brings together an all-star cast of analysts to put these disruptions in perspective, assessing the conflict’s origins, course, and implications.

The Insurrection Act gives presidents broad authority to deploy armed forces within the United States, but its dated provisions, going back to the 1790s, and its lack of sufficient checks and balances make it dangerously flawed. As part of a group of legal, political, and military experts convened by the American Law Institute, Jack Landman Goldsmith contributed to a set of principles that should guide congressional reform.

Undeterred by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is forging ahead with new efforts to cancel student loan debt. Writing in AEIdeas, Beth Akers assesses the administration’s new proposals from this past week.

Every year, military leadership provides Congress with lists of unfunded priorities not included in the president’s defense budget: an important reflection of disagreements between civilian and uniformed military judgments. In a new working paper, Elaine McCusker and John G. Ferrari analyze the surprising requests made in this year’s lists so far.

Academics often treat any right-wing attempts at higher education reform as illegitimate political interference. While academia is right to resist proposals to abolish tenure and slash humanities programs, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey argue that universities need to be more open to conservative proposals that respect and strengthen their distinctive intellectual culture and institutional structure.