Panelists at this seminar will discuss whether the euro can really challenge the dollar’s preeminent role.

"Off-label" prescribing--that is, doctors prescribing drugs for purposes other than those expressly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA--is often useful although little is known of its extent. In the last several years, nearly every major pharmaceutical company has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle allegations of...

Many international organizations and prominent political scientists support proportional representation (PR) as the fairest and most viable electoral system for nations undergoing a transition to democracy. But is proportional representation truly more democratic than an American-style system? How do the perceived advantages of PR match up against the challenges nations...

With the recent establishment of a Constitutional Convention, the European Union has embarked on an ambitious course toward political union and a larger, more centralized and "federalist" Europe. Some observers have welcomed this development as a necessary move towards further economic liberalization and the democratization of bureaucratic, unaccountable European institutions....

Post-approval drug safety surveillance is an extraordinarily difficult task.The Vioxx episode has probably made it more difficult for the Food and Drug Administration to do its job.

Gradually lowering greenhouse gas emissions would be worthwhile were all states to join in the effort, but absent such strong, broad-based action, countries should explore other means of limiting harm from climate change.

The consensus view that America's origins are ideological and religious is insufficient to explain this country. The role of economics, capitalism, and wealth are equally important, if not more.