The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

In the most recent Education Outlook, AEI scholar Rick Hess and Taryn Hochleitner explain how the inflation of college rankings contributes to a false sense of exclusivity and rising tuitions.

This paper compares a variety of measures of fatness in terms of their ability to predict application for Social Security Disability Insurance.

Greece's economic and political unraveling could not be coming at a worse moment for President Obama. The crisis has the potential to send shock waves not simply through Europe but also through global financial markets on the very eve of the U.S. presidential election.

Testimony before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on the legality of Wal-Mart's application to acquire an ILC (Industrial Loan Corporation).

The Obama administration refused to defend me against the lawsuit filed for José Padilla. Now even the liberal Ninth Circuit agrees the suit was frivolous.

Without a rational policy basis, the separation of banking and commerce is now only a way to protect banks and non-banks from competition from outside their industries.