The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

For-profit colleges aren't the first, or even the biggest, education lobbyists. They simply learned from the best: America's beloved public and nonprofit universities.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

The Public Interest Research Group's report should provide grist for courses in critical thinking on air pollution andcongestion, but should not be taken seriously as a guide for policymakers.

Although the Roussely Report is exemplary in many respects, it has one fundamental weakness: its assumption that, when multiple French nuclear corporations express interest in the same contract, they should join together for a shared bid.

An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.

The disparate way that the Security and Exchange Commission has handled health care costs and global warming suggests that it is swayed by political pressure and the whims of special interest groups rather than substantiated evidence.