Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) will discuss his ideas on how to provide affordable, clean energy for Americans.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

Woody Allen’s 1973 science fiction comedy Sleeper depicted teacher union leader Albert Shanker as a madman who destroyed the world, but a new biography finds Shanker to have been a complex and visionary figure whose life story offers timely lessons for contemporary debates over education, labor, civil rights, foreign policy,...

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and U.S. Representative Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have introduced legislation to curtail and amend federal court consent decrees. Such decrees, often running for many years or even decades, subject the state administration of federal programs (for example, Medicaid and environmental policies) to ongoing judicial oversight and...

Public Law 96-88, signed by President Jimmy Carter in October 1979, formally established the U.S. Department of Education in 1980. In recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the department, please join AEI as we examine lessons learned about the crafting of federal education policy from the department’s first quarter century.

Senator Lamar Alexander and Representative Roy Blunt argue on behalf of reforming the consent decree process that they say violates principles of federalism.

The United States is creating problems for itself by failing to invest adequately in basic research in science and science education.

On September 16, a panel of experts addressed claims that rigorous study of history and civics has been replaced by a vacuous social studies curriculum.