Public school teacher salaries are fair and their fringe benefits far outclass private saector jobs. In total, public school teachers are overpaid by more than 50 percent which costs governments over $100 billion annually.

It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

Eight years have passed, but the war that began on September 11, 2001, has yet to be won.

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

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

At this AEI event, Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff discuss their new book, which probes an array of crises to show why the four most dangerous words in finance are "this time is different."