Higher tax rates on high earners, even if they produce less revenue, are an attempt to centralize power in government and to limit the autonomy and countervailing power of individuals in the voluntary sector. Which is why the liberal bloggers cheer them on.

It's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls -- to heap praise on a liberal Democratic senator. But in the Fox News debate in Sioux City Thursday night both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had very good words to say for Oregon's Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.

In a new AEI study, AEI scholar Joseph Antos writes that health care proposals now under consideration in Congress would further centralize a market already dominated by government decision-making.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has made moves to centralize power in Russia and cut off support for his opponents; this will be a dangerous development for Russia and other nations.

American conservatives have opposed the growth of government regulation in principle but accommodated that growth in practice.

Bush's five-day trip is centered on the May 9 commemoration in Moscow's Red Square of the end of World War II in Europe with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing host to more than 50 heads of state. In the background will be U.S. criticism of Putin's moves to centralize his authority and Bush's support of democratic movements in former Soviet republics.

It is time to consider a different approach to governance across policy and issue lines--social networking.

Any solution to the conflict in Chechnya must be realistic and pragmatic in its goals. Putin's actions have principally served to strengthen the extremists on both sides, while the moderates, who are the best hope for a lasting peace, have been killed or driven into exile.