Everyday illusions obscure our perceptions and cause us to place undeserved trust in our instincts and intuition, but illusion-filled narratives are how we understand life.

Comments this week by Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf reveal a basic if not ultimately fatal flaw of President Obama's current health care plan.

Congressional Democrats spent the Bush years undermining the fundamental principle of constitutional government that the president is the commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and in doing so, fomented distrust between civilian and military leaders.

Medicaid provides health care for the poorest and most severely disabled members of our society, and improving its quality should be a top priority.

A statute to ensure the voting rights of minorities in 1965 has become a gerrymandering tool to further the interests of political parties and incumbent politicians.

Educators lack the data necessary to pinpoint concerns and successes in schools, but through six key steps, data-driven management in education could become a reality, and the data, if collected and analyzed correctly, could be used to foster improvements in education.

The most intriguing reforms in K-12 education today are entrepreneurial ventures.