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In the 1970s, policymakers tried to control healthcare costs by limiting the construction of new health facilities through certificate of need (CON) laws. However, empirical studies of such limits on hospital construction could not find convincing evidence that this type of regulation was effective....

Doing a better job of providing accessible, high-quality training, and helping students identify those programs, may not garner the headlines of a new research lab or football stadium, but it's a whole lot more likely to make a difference for workers and communities across the land.

The recession has pinned education policy in a tough spot: Our schools must both produce more skilled workers and do so as efficiently as possible. Innovative models of career and technical education could go a long way toward threading this needle.

Obama has treated foreign policy as something to keep on the back burner so he could concentrate on domestic politics. By killing Osama bin Laden, he got what he wished for. And that may just be the beginning of his problems.

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

It used to be tough and unrewarding to be a crank, but new media technologies may be contributing to the lunacy of the "birthers" and other recent conspiracy theorists.

Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry boast much better records than Mitt Romney in holding down health expenditures.

It's the oldest trick in PR: If you want to generate publicity, generate a statistic.