Progress against poverty requires measuring countries by the rule of law, judicial independence and free speech.

In a newly published op-ed, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Paul Wolfowitz, Mark Palmer, and Patrick Glenn emphasize that foreign assistance alone is a poor solution to reducing poverty and ineffective at improving governance in transitional democracies. Instead, the United Nations should establish Millennium Governance Goals.

The U.S. secretary of state should have more to say than simply that anti-Assad forces will 'somewhere, somehow, find the means to defend themselves.'

Despite a $160 million outstanding lifeline, Treasury misrepresentation paints a rosy picture of success.

With the threat of a veto hanging over its head, the National Defense Authorization bill heads to the House floor today for debate. Among the provisions are several dealing with the question of a nuclear weapons armed Iran, and what the United States should do to avert a crisis, prepare to handle the threat, or eliminate the threat altogether.

Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

President Obama’s reelection largely hinges on his ability to play young voters for suckers — again — and whether Mitt Romney will let him.In 2008, Obama won the youth vote by better than a 2–1 margin, 66 percent to 32 percent. Even more impressive, he actually expanded the...

Medicines have to pass through a rigorous series of clinical trials to prove their efficacy and safety; by bypassing systems that are in place, the manufacturers of counterfeit medicines are not only illegally profiting from others' endeavors--they are also putting patients' lives at risk.