As co-authors of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America,we strongly recommend that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 should be repealed and replaced as soon as possible.

Why did Obama's first jobs plan--the $825 billion stimulus--so quickly result in the need for another jobs plan? The economy would have benefitted far more if the government had instead improved the incentives for people and businesses to invest, produce and grow. The President probably won't mention any of this, but it does explain why he has to give his latest speech.

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James K. Glassman, editor-in-chief of The American magazine, announced today that Raj Chetty, an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the winner of...

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

FHA Watch, now in its second issue, focuses on the government’s taxpayer-backed Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage guarantee program, the risks it poses for taxpayers, families and communities, and the opportunities for reform that lead to sustainable homeownership and a fiscally sound FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.

Publications like the National Journal have ranked Obama as the most liberal senator, but the ranking system carries some flaws.

Sudden stops and reversals in capital flows are the stuff of policymakers’ nightmares. The last 20 years of research shows that the capital-inflow dilemma is not an external problem–it is an eternal one.