Experts in health care policy reached a consensus on a set of concrete, feasible steps that show promise for slowing spending growth and improving quality in health care.

Japan and the United States represent two of the world’s largest economies, with an interdependent trade relationship that surpassed $200 billion in 2007. Confronted by a restructuring of the world’s financial system and changes to the global trade environment, including American protectionism, the growth of Chinese export power, and the...

Washington will not be the same without Lloyd Cutler.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The Ethics in Government Act and the Codes of Professional Conduct of state bar associations present a thicket through which both incoming and outgoing government officials must negotiate.

Neither the framers nor subsequent political leaders had built in to the constitutional framework any plans to reconstitute Congress in the event of a catastrophe like 9/11. I called for Congressional leaders to at least create a commission to study the problem and potential solutions.

The Ethics in Government Act and the Codes of Professional Conduct of state bar associations present a complicated thicket through which both incoming and outgoing government officials, especially lawyers, must negotiate. The Transition to Governing Project and the Federalist Society are pleased to present a group of distinguished panelists...