Those who argue for reform that's about overall excellence and improving the opportunities for all students have been tarred in recent years as anti-reform or racist. But laudable efforts to help our least fortunate students need not come at the expense of the rest. We can do much better by all our children--and the first step is escaping the pinched confines of the achievement-gap mentality.

As educators face an altered fiscal landscape, conservatives have the ideas that can help, and are in a position to complement "choice" with smart strategies that address incentives, cost structures, and market dynamics.

It is almost a law of politics that a defeated political party recoils upon its political base.

The United States, the most successful country in history, manages to be kept awake at night by imaginary perils.

Despite his crushing defeat in recent elections, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard leaves a considerable legacy.

Some people have hailed the alternative minimum tax as a flat, low-rate, broad-based tax that would be a good replacement for the regular income tax. A closer look dispels this rosy view.

In Latin America, fiction is often the most accurate source of contemporary history; unfortunately, many Latin American works have not been translated for Anglophone readers.