AEI’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies will host Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter for a timely discussion of U.S. defense budgets, of the changing strategic landscape in the U.S. and the force that this landscape demands.

At this event, Alan Viard will present the X tax proposal while James Mackie of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute will offer commentary.

Frederick Hess interviews Joel Klein about his tenure, his takeaways, and changes in the reform landscape during the past decade.

This Outlook describes the sad, and largely unsuccessful, history of UN reform efforts in the past thirty years and proposes a revolutionary change that might actually produce a different result: moving toward voluntary funding of the UN and its activities.

A better solution than ObamaCare would focus on protecting the highest-risk uninsured in a way that would not spring budgetary leaks, with adequately funded high-risk pools augmented with broader remedies.

While the commissars for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) should represent the will of the supreme leader of Iran, today it seems they are speaking for the guards instead of overseeing them; the IRGC is slowly taking over Iran.

How are Americans reacting to the federal government's expanded role in the economy and in the provision of health care?

The Obama health reform plan, embodied most clearly in a bill now before the Senate, rests on a fiscal deception when it comes to the way Medicare pays America's doctors.