Consumers have been in the doldrums throughout this weak recovery, but the mood has gone from sour to despairing in recent months. The numbers have been so bad that the relatively obscure "Index of Consumer Sentiment" constructed by the University of Michigan has begun to receive the attention of political handicappers.

Sally Satel assembles medical practitioners, legal scholars, economists, and ethicists to evaluate the merits of and need for an incentive-based system for increasing the supply of kidneys.

Rewarding organ donors for their remarkable gifts can be ethically permissible, economically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable.

Timothy Geithner'stax episode is more reason to support him, not less.

Will harsher and more effective economic sanctions raise the cost to Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons and change the calculus of decision-makers in Tehran?

We should offer well-informed individuals a reward if they are willing to save a stranger's life.

Divorce settlements have always cost an arm and a leg, but as the shocking Batista case demonstrates, vital organs are now fair game. Can altruism ever be regulated?

The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act ensures that Congress is leading our nation to confront the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.