American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is a big story in Congress, even though it barely made it through the House Budget Committee, will take a battle to pass on the House floor and has zero chance of being embraced as is, or in any facsimile, in the Senate. So why is it so big?

Congressional leaders and the President have come to agreement on a deal to increase the debt ceiling, but the drama is far from over. The debt deal kicks all the important decisions down the road and into 2013.

Advocacy journalists sitr up unwarranted hysteria over a weed-killer made to save farmers over $2 billion.

A popular topic in public health research today is that inequality, and in particular income inequality, is one of the most powerful determinants of health and the most important limitation on the quality of life in modern societies.

While a few studies have provided evidence that the greater the disparity...

The new Obama drug initiative is of a piece with the administration's abiding faith in the virtue of government investment as a trump to private entrepreneurism. At the core of this religion is a faith that that the political allocation of capital leads to better, or at least more "equitable" outcomes.

While controversy has raged over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) handling of drug safety, a lower-profile but equally important debate has centered on the FDA’s role in the development and commercialization of the most innovative kinds of new drug treatments for cancer and other conditions that have long defied...