American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman and a spinoff firm led by William Lerach dominated securities class actions over the last twenty years. But in 2006 and 2007, prosecutors indicted the Milberg firm, Lerach, Mel Weiss, David Bershad, and Steven Schulman for paying kickbacks to “class representative” plaintiffs, who were supposed...

We must abandon the mirages, to which Obama still clings, that Iran might negotiate an acceptable "solution" to its nuclear weapons program, or merely that economic sanctions will somehow force Iran to negotiate. No wonder the Iranian regime mocks us for weakness and willful blindness.

There were two clear winners in the Republican debate; the energy and enthusiasm on display Monday night will produce some twists and turns no one will predict.

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. 

The New Hampshire debate has serious ramifications for Iowa. Romney behaved like a frontrunner, one with confidence and sense of command and with adroitness to step aside from two major issue challenges. You could extrapolate from Pawlenty's performance that he is a serious candidate for the nomination. But you could extrapolate much from Bachmann’s performance that she is a serious competitor in the Ames straw poll.

Republican Bob Turner's win in the New York 9th district special election is a big reversal from the 2008 general election. Voters just issued what amounts to an emphatic thumbs down on the policies of the Obama Democrats. This result is a rebuke to Barack Obama, but it is a rebuke as well—a stinging one, perhaps more stinging—to Senator Charles Schumer.

What accounts fo the relationship between presidential authority and the laws governing international affairs?