To be effective, policies intended to bring telecommunications services to people who otherwise would not have access should focus on encouraging competition.

The federal government has made substantial progress in reforming economic regulation--especially by deregulating prices and reducing entry barriers in specific industries.

This primer highlightsboth the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.

Roger Noll, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, will deliver the 2006 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on why regulatory reform has stalled and why certain costly regulatory practices are spreading to the rest of the world. He will discuss how politics can block beneficial reforms of regulations that...

The disheartening close of its prized program is bad news for the Obama administration and probably signals rough seas ahead for its education agenda in 2011.

Reviews Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George Marsden, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark A. Noll, and Lincoln, by Richard Carwardine.

A review of Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State, edited by Edward Newman and Joanne van Selm.

Education has a long tradition of bipartisanship in Washington, but a look at the upcoming midterm elections suggests that the odds that education bipartisanship will maintain its vaunted status in 2011 are looking bleak.