If you want redistribution, you better first produce growth. Which the Obama Democrats' policies have failed to do.

Congress and the president need to reform Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security because they are no longer able to run on autopilot.

Has Barack Obama's Democratic party given up on winning the votes of the white working class? Thomas Edsall, the longtime Washington Post reporter now with the Huffington Post, thinks so.

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.

Essays adapted from remarks made at theAEI's book forum "Human Cloning and Human Dignity" onOctober 29, 2002.

Diane Ravitch discussed her new book "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."

No, it wasn't Obama's words but deeds that roused the beast. The poorly crafted, deeply partisan stimulus was like a sharp stick to the bear's belly. But it was "Obamacare" that ended the hibernation.

In the span of a generation, conservative intellectuals and activists have succeeded in mounting a potent challenge to liberal legal theories that once held unquestioned sway over America’s courts and law schools. They have built a robust infrastructure of legal advocacy groups, think tanks, and networking organizations that have shifted...