Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

In "It’s Even Worse Than It Looks," congressional scholars Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of AEI identify two overriding problems that have led Congress — and the United States — to the brink of institutional collapse. Mann and Ornstein call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction.

In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993), the Supreme Court ruled that expert testimony is only admissible in court if it passes a strict reliability test, and assigned the role of evidentiary “gatekeepers” to federal trial judges. This standard, later codified as Rule 702, has undoubtedly provided significant protection against...

Private-sector union membership is declining, but union membership is still growing in the public sector.

By combating Frederick Taylor's theories on worker efficiency, Unions have become their own worst enemy.

President Obama has kicked off a three-day bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, where the corn is high and at least some factories are spewing smoke. He won these Midwestern states handily in 2008, but he's not taking anything for granted these days. To understand the political economy of the region, it helps to put it in historic perspective.

Panelists discussed the Koreas and Nick Eberstadt's upcoming book, Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945-91.

The cost of healthcare to society is important, but protecting the doctor-patient relationship is paramount.