It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

Many on the political left decry the disappearance of defined-benefit pension plans from the private sector and strive mightily to maintain them for public-sector employees. The people who put defined-benefit plans and policies in place assumed there would always be someone able to pay for them.

The Romney 4 percent Pentagon budget is no “spike”; it’s more like a return to normal, even very constrained military spending given the global mission of America’s armed forces.

Monday's release of the annual Medicare Trustees' report seems on the face of things to be a simple exercise in dry accounting – trust fund x will run out of money in year y.  In fact, it's much more than that.  It's an annual reminder that we are...

Despite the recent Deepwater Horizon disaster, offshore drilling is an opportunity that we cannot afford to squander, as our energy security and economic growth depend on it.

Some politicians and pundits have declared India a "natural ally," an emergent "great power" fated to be at the vanguard of the twenty-first century. But as India rises, it faces daunting obstacles: Can the country's antiquated infrastructure power economic development? Will the national bureaucracy shed its legendary inefficiencies and mitigate...

Social Security is financially unsustainable in its current form, but by keeping benefits on an even keel, we can put it on a sound financial footing.