John Lott is one of the nation’s most prolific and original policy economists, will join the research staff of the American Enterprise Institute as a resident scholar on September 1, AEI President Christopher DeMuth announced today.

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has grown fivefold--a rate unprecedented in American history. Is there an alternative to incarceration?

Rather than brag that they too can spend like drunken sailors, serious reformers should instead insist that educators show them the money--and the results.

Safe minority constituencies, in marginalizing black representatives, have become a brake on further racial progress.

Race-driven districting is the product of a bygone era and should be ended, and it should be replaced by a celebration that black politics has come of age in the United States.

Central to the globalization debate is the issue of the extent to which the United States should compel the application of U.S. laws and regulatory standards to activities in other countries.

Classical, not radical, feminism offers a tried-and-true roadmap to equality and freedom. It is time to reclaim true feminism and restore its lost history.