Wednesday and Thursday mark Egypt’s first post-Mubarak presidential elections. Sadly, what should be a purple-fingered moment brings some hope and much disappointment. Don’t get me wrong – Mubarak was a loathsome stooge, a petty and incompetent rentier tyrant who deserved what he got and more.

As part of the AEI project Beyond "Repeal and Replace," health industry analyst Stephen T. Parente questions whether The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is likely to overcome longstanding economic disincentives to the use of electronic health records.

Just like the leaders of the civil rights movement, Russia's activists seek to effect vast political and social change by personal and deeply moral effort fueled from within.

The counterfeit drug trade is a problem that Beijing can cure.

Excessive tariffs on essential medicines hurt global health.

Ridding the world of nuclear weapons is an impossible and probably dangerous goal.

Leaders of developing countries should not wait for U.S. and EU action, but should restart the Doha Development round by taking the simple, initial step required to help their own people--implementing national tariff policies that eliminate tariffs and taxes on essential medicines.

While a line-item veto would enable a president willing to take the political heat to excise the wasteful spending of pork-addled lawmakers, it is less fulfilling than it appears and would bring a major cost to the constitutional balance.