President Obama says that his health plan's popularity will grow once its provisions start being implemented. But peculiar rules tucked into the legislation are likely to make the entire scheme even more disliked as its implementation approaches.

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.

U.S. diplomats are pressing for the victory of the candidate who presided over Iraq at its nadir.

To ensure that the United States remains that land of opportunity and is able compete in an increasingly global economy while protecting the interests of American citizens, immigration policy should be selective and focused on high-skilled and high-demand workers.

From the perspective of the corporate profit and loss statement, a trading loss is one expense item in the context of all revenues and expenses. So $2 billion should be compared to the bank's $26.7 billion in pretax profits for 2011, suggesting a reduction of something less than 10 percent in annual profit.

One has to be struck at the gaping gulf between the Obama administration's diagnosis of what ails the economy and its policy prescription to promote a recovery.

Two months ago, the House adopted a budget resolution that outlines the Republican majority's ambitious plans to slow the growth of federal entitlement spending. If implemented properly, entitlement spending restraint can address the long-term fiscal imbalance in a way that promotes economic growth and freedom.