Detroit lost 25% of its population in a single decade--a decline second only to hurricane-devastated New Orleans.

The Bush administration faces major challenges in establishing its priorities in the area of international trade policy. Two of the most important issues concern the role of bilateral and regional trade arrangements and the future direction and functioning of the World Trade Organization. AEI has assembled two panels of...

There is a disconnect between U.S. policymakers' sense of what global rules of economic conduct ought to say and what they actually say, and a meeting with a pre-set mandate to address imbalances would offer the best opportunity to defuse some of those festering tensions.

Recent congressional ethics scandals could prompt necessary changes, such as enforcing ethics standards, implementing greater transparency, and enacting earmark reform.

The Obama adminstration's decision to move forward with the Korea free trade agreement represents a sharp break from a deliberately ambiguous trade policy and may mark a welcome return to U.S. trade leadership if the administration can overcome political obstacles to see it through.

The majority party in the House must learn from past mistakes.

China's announcement that it would let its currency begin to move seems like the successful culmination of the Obama administration's strategy on Chinese currency practices, but the president may not be able to claim the victory.

No one, other than a fool or a knave, could discount the threat facing us today from militant Islam.