Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded that there's an extra 13 auto accident deaths attributable to Income Tax Day (i.e., generally April 15, but which falls on April 17 this year). This is a drop in the bucket compared to the actual carnage that might be reasonably attributed to paying taxes in America.

The dirty little secret of American healthcare is that the mandate wouldn’t save taxpayers a dime. Why? Because the tax subsidies for people with health insurance are bigger than the unpaid medical bills left behind by the uninsured.

If the individual mandate is upheld, Americans will have suffered a loss of liberty from which there will be no turning back.

Paul Krugman says the opponents of the Affordable Care Act are liars and repeats claims that are a flagrant falsehoods in 2012.

Join AEI experts for a live discussion of President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.