According to the new calculations of the Social Security Trustees’ 2012 Report, Social Security’s future costs are a lot bigger than its future income.

The health news for the New York City is good — very good, in fact. And it must be especially gratifying to Bloomberg, given his longstanding personal commitment to public health. But it isn’t clear that the official narrative of New York’s health progress actually conforms with the health story for New York over the last decade.

If a debt cannot be paid, it will not be paid—at least not paid in full. Could Social Security’s debt be settled at a discount by voluntary transactions with its creditors, namely American citizens?

While one would not want to minimize the short-term trauma that exiting the euro would involve for the eurozone's peripheral countries, it would at least offer them the future prospect of strong export growth.

Kenneth P. Green responds to questions Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) asked him about climate change during recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance.

AEI's Joe Antos says actual federal health spending for the health care bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be double what Reid claims it will be.

Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

This event will address the problems and improvements needed for student loans, beginning with a keynote presentation by former secretary of education Bill Bennett.