This study presents an independent cost estimate and impact analysis of the major policies offered byPresident George W. Bush and John Kerryto expand access to health insurance.

Few in Japan today talk in such optimistic terms about China. None want a clash of any kind, nor a more confrontational relationship, but neither are Japanese willing to be forced into accommodating Chinese desires.

Independent actuaries and cost estimators presenta detailed analysis of President George W. Bush’s and Senator John Kerry’s health care reform proposals.

In the years since the end of the Cold War, the physical and cultural consequences of the Second World War have continued to disappear: the map of Europe has reverted in many ways to its interwar state (of roughly 1919–39); Britain’s characteristic interwar mood of pacifism and appeasement-mindedness is widespread...

Daniel Gros and Thomas Mayer's proposal to set up a European Monetary Union might have had some merit at the time of the euro's launch in January 1999. However, over the past decade, the world has changed fundamentally in a way that today renders their proposal a nonstarter.

Attempting to explain itself in terms of Jewish history has become a costly, even catastrophic, failure for Israel. Nowadays not even American Jews have sufficient historical purchase to grasp that kind of argument. Israel today is far more readily explained in terms of the American precedent than of...

President Obama's upcoming visit to the 64th UN General Assembly, which opened yesterday, will be nothing if not entertaining.

Alan Greenspan's exhortations to Congress to mend its profligate fiscal ways are falling on deaf ears, prompting Paul Volcker to publicly muse about a global economy skating on thin ice.