Panelists discuss competitive pricing in Medicare.

While some Republicans have been distancing themselves from Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare overhaul, Florida's junior senator, Marco Rubio, has emerged in recent weeks as Ryan's most ardent public defender.

Collegeacceptance rates are way down. Was this just an unusually bad year, or a sign of worse things to come?

As the case of Marco Rubio demonstrates, it seems that no matter whom the GOP includes, it is always the wrong kind of inclusiveness.

Reviews Feltrinelli by Carlo Feltrinelli.

The numbers suggest that the Republicans could well wind up with a majority of House seats next year, and perhaps more than they had at any time between 1994 and 2006.

Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush have proposed widely different plans to reduce the number of the uninsured and contain rising health care costs. Is the Kerry health plan a massive government takeover of the health system? Is Bush simply ignoring the problem of the uninsured? Will either...

Traditional budget measures-such as the national debt and deficits-are becoming inadequate as federal budget priorities shift increasingly toward social insurance programs. As the baby-boom generation retires and life spans continue to lengthen, the share of retirees in the U.S. population will expand considerably and Social Security and Medicare...