Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states.

Obama's comment reminds general election voters, most of whom dislike his current major policies, that he might go even further "after my election."

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

Public radio and television are defensible to the extent that they serve the public good by enriching the arts. NPR and PBS, however, wandered far from this mission.

"There are those who say the United States should not be the global policeman. But if not us, who?" What conservative would make such a hubristic statement in the Tea Party, deficit-slashing, small government environment of 2011? An in-the-bunker apologist for George Bush? An unreconstructed neocon warmonger? No. It's from Martin Feldstein.

The risks of debilitating cuts to our national-security budget will be a critical issue for Congress when it reconvenes after the August recess. While the media focus as Congress adjourned earlier this month was on the big-picture implications of the legislation lifting the federal debt-ceiling, we cannot lose sight of the difficult--and imminent--struggles just ahead in September.

The second part ofa debate over forcible regime change in the Islamic Republic.

Now that the Great Debt Ceiling Deal has become the law of the land, it's time to consider what just happened to America, and in particular to America's armed forces. On the one hand, it's complicated. On the other hand, it's ugly.