Are teachers paid too much? It's a question that would ignite heated debate at the most mellow of cocktail parties. But it's a question that AEI took head-on this year.

For East Asian politicos, there’s not that much to grab headline attention in the world’s most economically dynamic region. Or maybe there is.

A brief examination of the American obsession with work.

Although they are politically unpalatable, Pigovian taxes are eminently sensible as judged by standard principles of economics.

Extreme partisan deadlock is a cancer that endangers our nation. AsBarack Obama pointed out in his campaign, reason and compromise are needed now--right now.

By not paying their taxes, millions of Americans are contributing to the national deficit.

U.S. diplomats are pressing for the victory of the candidate who presided over Iraq at its nadir.

It is suicidal for the EU to draw on Europe's worst political traditions, the common denominator of which is the idea that evil must be appeased and that the best way to achieve peace is through indifference to the freedom of others.