Washington, D.C. will be glad to see the back of Paul Martinfor much the same reason that Canadians voted against him.

Pensions and scholarships send a message that marriage and child-rearing are honorable life choices. This is the opposite of what Canadian and other societies now teach their children.

Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

Every day patients receive treatments that do not work properly. For many this means no relief from symptoms, but for some death is the result. Yet concerted action against such products is limited. Before we can discuss why that's the case, I will attempt to explain what kind of products don’t work, and what we should call them.

Since there is no demand for dangerous medicine, international action has a far greater chance of success than the war against narcotics.

The counterfeiting of medicines is so prevalent yet totally unaddressed and therefore legal in international criminal law. A counterfeit medicine treaty should be drafted under the auspices of the World Health Organization.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

This is Africa’s year. G8 has made Africa its cause for the year and the Live 8 concerts around the globe have enlivened the issue for hundreds of millions of people. The UN heads of state meet September 14, 2005, to discuss and assess the five-year progress of the Millennium...