With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I thought I’d try something...

Few areas of public policy are more misunderstood than that of insurance. Why do consumers want to buy insurance in the first place? Why have politicians from Bismarck to the Clintons wished to provide more insurance through the public sector? And, can economists provide any rational criteria to judge...

On this Labor Day, we see an important part of the compensation for a lifetime of work placed in doubt.

Review of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Jussi Hanhimaki.

What are we to make of the problems of pension finance?

A close look at offshoring shows that it not only results in bad strategy but has its origins in bad history.

History will judge President George W. Bush more gently than have his contemporaries.

If you arelistening to current Democratic rhetoric, the "forgotten man"was not what you might expect.