In the second edition of "Women's Figures," author Diana Furchtgott-Roth shatters the myth of the wage gap, alleging that women are continuing to gain ground relative to men. Preferential policies towards women are undermining America's notion of meritocracy and are actually calling into question the value of women's earned achievements.

Furchtgott-Roth, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission since 1997, will join AEI as a visiting fellow upon his departure from the FCC.

How has the Telecommunications Act of 1996 affected telecommunications policy over the past ten years?

How well did theTelecommunications Act of 1996 respond to consumer demands?

Is government intervention necessary in ratings systems?

Althoughvoice-over-IPservices company Vonage has cast its lot with the Federal Communications Commission, both must prevail in court against challenges from states and other groups.

The recent experience of the Federal Communications Commission's review of mergers demonstrates that the FCC does a poor job as a surrogate antitrust agency.

The primary reason that antitrust law and communications law collide is not that they are inherently incompatible for technological or legal reasons but rather that communications law has become such a random collection of ad hoc decisions that it necessarily interferes with any set of rules actually grounded in law.