John Yoo defends a strong presidency and the President's constitutional power to wage war.

The Dodd-Frank Act recognizes that investor understandings about endgame rules influence a firm’s appetite for risk and that, higher capital requirements on systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) cannot by themselves end creditor perceptions that in most circumstances SIFIs are economically, politically, and administratively too difficult to fail and unwind.

The Citizens United decision equates corporations with individual citizens, overturning the ban on corporate spending in federal campaigns, and will have huge effects on the policymaking process.

Measures to help avoid a future crisis and proposals to change the way in which the government responds to crises should they happen nonetheless.

The House Financial Services Committee's October 27 Discussion Draft proposes measures that would, if enacted, retard economic growth, allow the government to assume control over the financial system, and seriously impair financial competition.

The Obama administration's proposal for a resolution authority for nonbank financial firms has a fundamental flaw.

Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jerseywas ruled to be 68percent responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.