We have to clear a heaping pile of recent and older health policy debris before moving in a careful and determined manner to the "replace" side of long overdue solutions to chronic, preexisting U.S. healthcare conditions. The clock's running, but we can and we will do this much better, and we have to.

Export-related jobs are a huge and important driver of the U.S. economy, and the record of the Ex-Im Bank is clear: Using private funds and with minimal exposure to taxpayers, it has been a major driver of U.S. exports and a driver of jobs and corporate profits in the United States.

Declining inflation, veering into outright price declines (or deflation) in some countries, continues to be a major risk to the global economy.

If there is one conclusion that should be drawn from the boom in U.S. natural gas production, it is that supplies are so abundant that it makes economic sense to export some of our gas to countries overseas. No one could have imagined that possibility even a few years ago...

The Clorox partnership fiasco demonstrates poor levels of transparency and weak corporate governance at the Sierra Club.

When Barack Obama tours Europe later this month, he will be greeted as a future world leader. Will his outspoken wife sit comfortably at the diplomatic top table?

Emission controls are not going to have much impact until a new generation of vastly cheaper technologies becomes available and matures, but in the meantime, geoengineering may offer some help.

The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.