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Global Affairs

How ‘The Walking Dead’ Can Inform Our Response to Terrorism

| November 18, 2015 | Global Affairs

How ‘The Walking Dead’ Can Inform Our Response to Terrorism
I’ve written about the TV show “The Walking Dead” on this blog before. It may seem odd that I should be writing about a TV series on the zombie apocalypse for a blog whose focus is faith, economics, and public policy. That’s because it is. And yet, once again the show...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

How You Can Support Religious Minorities in Iraq from Your Desk

| June 11, 2015 | Global Affairs

How You Can Support Religious Minorities in Iraq from Your Desk
Amid reports of destruction by ISIS, accelerating controversy over U.S. strategy in Iraq, and a growing pessimism towards the situation overall, American sympathy towards suffering Iraqis may easily transform into confusion and inactivity. Daniel Mark wrote last week...
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Sara Belz
Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.

Common Good #10 – Rep. Frank Wolf and Elyse Anderson

| April 1, 2015 | Global Affairs, Podcasts

Common Good #10 – Rep. Frank Wolf and Elyse Anderson
On this episode of Values & Capitalism’s Common Good podcast, my guests are former Congressman Frank Wolf and Elyse Bauer Anderson. Mr. Wolf represented the 10th district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 30 years, and is now Jerry...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

The Federal Reserve: Scapegoat for Emerging Markets

| February 13, 2014 | Global Affairs

After years of quantitative easing, and months of taper speculation, the central bank began paring monthly bond purchases by $10 billion in January, now at $65 billion. This decision enabled Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to walk a fine line between...
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Jessica Rabe
Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York.