The $489 billion cut to defense budgets engineered by Barack Obama — as well as the played-for-fool Republican accomplices on Capitol Hill — won't just mean less American military power. These cuts have significant consequences for America's allies, as well. Consider the case of the...

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

The federal government can and should play a limited but important role in helping the nation address the challenge of  improving the productivity of education spending.

At this event, panelists discussed the current health care reform bill and Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. delivered a keynote discussing the impact of health care reform.

Failing to distinguish between licensed online pharmacies (Canadian or otherwise), which require a valid prescription and sell safe medications, and rogue online pharmacies, which sell lethal fake medicines or flout prescription requirements, means poor patients have less information to make good choices about the drugs they require.

A fundamental question for those Republicans campaigning to replace Barack Obama as commander-in-chief and, as Harry Truman might have put it, as “leader of the free world,” is how they intend to restore American greatness in a troubled time.

Mindless cuts that are utterly penny-wise and pound-foolish show how distorted our deliberative process has become. In the headlong rush to provide a better fiscal future for our children, we should not be providing a less safe present for all of us.

At this event, John A. Vernon and Joseph H. Golec will discuss their new AEI Press book.