After adjusting for education and experience, federal workers have higher salaries than private workers in the same fields, and when factoring in their generous benefits packages, total compensation for federal workers could be nearly $14,000 per year more than for similar private workers.

Do teacher incentives actually make our schools better? New research on North Carolina schools by Thomas Ahn of the University of Kentucky suggests that the answer is a definitive "yes."

Republicans in many states are pursuing two avenues to tilt elections their way—changing the electoral college rules in the middle of the game and using laws and regulations to block likely Democratic voters from exercising their legitimate franchise. Both ploys demand new thinking to enhance our elections, not constrain them in partisan ways.

Today, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economist and tax expert Alex Brill released a pro-growth, progressive, and practical tax reform proposal. Brill explains that six simple changes to the tax code can create an economic environment that improves our global competitiveness.

Tax reform perpetually tops policymakers' lists for ways to grow the economy, but a generation has passed since the last successful effort, the Tax Reform Act of 1986. This is because of a simple political reality-it's hard. But not, I believe, impossible.

Tax Analysts' Martin A. Sullivan recently sat down with Alex Brill, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss his tax reform plan, which he hopes can win bipartisan support.

House Republicans have broken the hugely successful spectrum auction authorization first effected in 1993 and also delayed for many years any possibility that digital broadcast spectrum that is almost entirely unused can be repurposed to serve the growing demands for wireless broadband.

The private sector is entirely capable of developing EVs and other new automotive technologies without the need for subsidies.