This week, America lost the most influential social scientist of the past 100 years. James Q. Wilson died at the age of 80.

Romney's negative attacks are an attempt to get them to focus on the qualms many former Gingrich colleagues have about him. It's a risky move, but probably not as risky as Obama's.

Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

Rising foreign direct investment, U.S. manufacturing job losses, and cross-border outsourcing arrangements have focused attention on how U.S. tax rules influence decisions by multinational companies to create jobs in the United States and abroad. The recent presidential election campaign included proposals to alter significantly U.S. taxation of income earned by...

The Beltway media, in cases of lurid accusations, have displayed a curious and consistent habit of slamming one set of candidates while covering for the other. Questions should be raised about media reporting biases, rather than AEI’s ground rules.

The gap between the reality of events on the ground and the manner in which they are reported in the media continues to be a topic of hot debate. While the media is quick to report on casualty figures, it is slow to report on the positive advances made by...

Daniele Capezzone--an unabashed European supporter of American values and the secretary of the Italian Radical Party (Radicali italiani)--will discuss his proposal for the creation of an organization of democratic countries to support democratic movements and destabilize dictatorships. He believes that the United Nations has failed in its task, and...

Hoover Dam was the great feat of American business. If President Obama is looking for the imagination and ambition that will get this country moving again, that's where he'll find it, rather than in Washington.