Congress and education policymakers should clarify and streamline federal fiscal compliance requirements so schools can focus less on compliance and more on raising student achievement.

A significant portion of antimalarial drugs in Africa have been illegally diverted from the public sector, where they were intended to be dispensed free of charge in public health facilities, to the private sector.

While there are major partisan divides over how to permanently restructure our health care system, there is one key area where Democrats and Republicans should be working together: fighting health care fraud.

Committees of the new US Congress may want to hold hearings concerning halting aid dispersion to the Global Fund in the coming weeks.

The Global Fund is to be commended for its transparency, but it has failed to act on the information it has gleaned, and continues to allow its funds to be used by governmental distribution systems known to be corrupt.

Drugs donated to developing countries are being stolen by criminal groups, which harms patients, encourages criminal networks, and probably leads to dangerous counterfeiting.

The first step toward restoring budget responsibility is to reform the budget decision process so that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are no longer on auto-pilot.