What do America’s memorials and monuments tell us about our nation and our identity as citizens? How should we memorialize past events and individuals?

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. 

Join us at AEI for a conversation that will consider what the 2012 elections hold for education against the backdrop of the new book "Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools," edited by AEI's Frederick M. Hess and Andrew P. Kelly.

Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents identifies two waves of organized crime in Iraq: One took advantage of the collapse of the state and of the breakdown of social control; the other was defined by political ambition and the need to find resources for militias.

Gender bias has been a hot button topic of discrimination for many years, but after analyzing 20 years of data, two Cornell professors have concluded that, in academic science, women are treated just as well as men.

A new study shows that public universities trounce the private ones in terms of the percentage return on investment.

Newtzilla is back. Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that "conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla…. Everything bad about Gingrich — the flip-flops, the wives, the ego — is known. Once voters have convinced themselves they can overlook...

The House of Representatives is poised to mandate gender-bias-awareness workshops known as STEMinars that have the capacity to undermine the meritocratic culture that enables America’s success in science.