How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all.In fact Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But it's become glaringly...

In mid-September 2011, as part of AEI’s Program on American Citizenship, we celebrated Constitution Day. In conjunction with that remembrance, we thought it appropriate to honor our longtime colleague and friend Walter Berns with a panel dedicated to discussing his scholarship on the Constitution and the American regime it supports.

AEI visiting scholar Robert Kaestner and his coauthor Anthony Lo Sasso, both professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenge the underlying assumptions of the health law passed last March in a new study.

Rather than await the decision on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama decided to attack preemptively with error-filled claims about the place of judicial review in our constitutional system. Judicial review springs from the duty of a court, when deciding a case before it, to enforce the Constitution over a conflicting act of Congress.

In his recent book 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States (Yale University Press, January 2008), Yale Law School professor Michael Graetz proposes a fundamental tax reform that would replace income taxes on low- and middle-income households with a value-added tax...

After 9/11, serious questions were raised as to the methods that might be used to extract information from terrorists who might threaten U.S. national interests. What constitutes torture? Is it ever justified? What are the legal procedures that the U.S. government can put in place regarding this issue? Jean Bethke...

There are broad disagreements over climate change policies among public officials and academics. One key source of debate hinges on how best to account for the multigenerational distribution of costs and benefits associated with various policies. This is an important consideration because if governments cut emissions immediately, the beneficiaries will...

Obama's Chicago way fosters a culture of crony capitalism and assumes that there will always be a bounteous private sector for politicians to plunder.