Chris Christie has shown that confrontational leadership can get results and produce more admirers than detractors. Barack Obama has shown that lack of leadership leaves pretty much everyone dissatisfied.

In this election year, with domestic discussion centered on taxes and jobs, it is useful to take stock of what we know about taxes and hours worked, entrepreneurship, and jobs.

Charles Rangel and Hillary Clinton share the broad goal of progressive tax reform.

What themes in this year's State of the Union address will be carried by symbols, people, and ceremony?

Trading in the past.

British authors John Micklethwait and Adrain Wooldridge offer political observations in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.

America's financial crisis, deep recession and anemic recovery have largely been driven by economic policies that have deviated from proven fact-based principles.

Toward Fundamental Tax Reform provides insight into the current thinking of our nation’s leading tax scholars and also serves as an excellent primer on the basic issues of tax reform.