Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, will join Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth to debate school funding litigation.

The track record of judicial interventions suggests that increased school funding without other more fundamental changes typically does not lead to improved student performance.

It is not a departure from this view to see that firms often go to great lengths to create images which consumers will note and respect

By any reasonable measure, America's international policy since World War II has to be judged a phenomenal success. That policy--which has enjoyed long and bipartisan support--may be said to have had two overarching and complementary aims: (1) the containment of Soviet communism until that menacing presence either fundamentally reformed itself...

Have U.N. development efforts really accomplished their aims?

There is good reason to hope that the Republicans will free localities from the straightjacket of federal bureaucracy without unreasonably cutting financial support.

The Russian Federation today is in the grip of a steadily tightening mesh of serious demographic problems, for which the term "crisis" is no overstatement.

The world economy's imbalances are not simply the fault of U.S. policy, but serious discussion of the way forward must begin in Washington. And it must begin soon.