If the North American fertility divergence continues, it may become an example of how countries can converge at the macroeconomic level while diverging at the micro level.

Involuntary commitment is bound to raise some apprehensions and there are serious questions about how it should be implemented, but there are horrible costs to the policy our society has been following.

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Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...

According to most projections, Western Europe and the United States are poised to undergo an unprecedented “demographic divergence.” Over the next generation, Europe’s demographic profile will age markedly; its working-age population will begin to contract in size; deaths will regularly exceed births; and the population as a whole will begin...

Panelists judged the effectiveness of the Community Mental Health Centers Act on October 31, 2003.

On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act, through which psychiatric patients would be treated in small community clinics rather than in large expensive state hospitals. Though the act promised to improve conditions and save millions of dollars, it mostly added...

The Deepwater Horizon spill is clearly an ecological disaster, but overreaction to it could cause more environmental and economic harm than good.

Russia's pension privatization epitomizes both the enormous progress achieved over the past decade and the equally huge obstacles still ahead on the road to "civilized" liberal capitalism.