When does federal law trump state law? Federal preemption has become the stuff of public debate and of major news stories. Consumer advocates, plaintiffs attorneys, and state officials argue that broad federal preemption claims interfere with the states’ historic police power to protect their citizens against corporate misconduct. Corporations and...

The stunning news about Osama bin Laden will help Obama in the short term and the long term. But the triumph over bin Laden will not solve the problems of a looming debt ceiling deadline or set of deadlines, difficult negotiations over debt and deficits, not to mention the fundamentals of health care, a sluggish domestic and global economy, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan (now even more complicated) or soaring oil prices.

Vice President and Mrs. Cheney, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the annual dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

My colleagues and I are very grateful to the Dinner Committee and to our stalwart friends who have purchased and sold tickets...

We should talk to our enemies on our own terms and not theirs, and with their captive peoples in mind.

For nearly two decades, the debate about whether or not to establish a national missile defense system has smoldered in Washington. The debate, fueled in large part with intellectual firepower from the capital's think tanks, has outlived the Cold War that spawned it.

Over the next three years, President Barack Obama and his advisers will need to set a course for the reassertion of U.S. leadership in constructing a trans-Pacific vision.

Gradually lowering greenhouse gas emissions would be worthwhile were all states to join in the effort, but absent such strong, broad-based action, countries should explore other means of limiting harm from climate change.