With state budgets under considerable strain, the time has come for the federal government to take a hard look at the capacities of state education agencies to fulfill progressive education mandates.

“Americans spend too much on health care.” “We have worse health outcomes than our European counterparts.” Talking points such as these helped drive President Obama’s controversial and sweeping health care reform into law two years ago. But are they accurate?

The adoption of flat tax systems in eastern Europe - following their earlier introduction in Hong Kong and the Channel Islands - has sparked growing interest in western Europe and the US.

This bookbrings together Novak's essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive.

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

With the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization looming and Washington’s eyes focused on school turnarounds and the Common Core State Standards, we must listen to the voices of dynamic leaders tackling the challenge of high-quality literacy instruction in the nation’s school districts.

There seems to be bipartisan agreement that the mainstream media is biased but disagreement concerning the direction. In this conference, Brian Anderson of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal will discuss recent work indicating a leftward bias, and discuss the implications of this bias both for the evolution of the media...

The author urges the pursuit of religion as a method for finding meaning in the world and as a tool for rejecting nihilism.