Happy Birthday, Mr. President. You've come a long way in your first 50 years of life, but so has the country. Take a look back at what Americans were thinking about the year Obama was born.

Reducing federal employee compensation to market levels could save taxpayers roughly $77 billion per year.

We cannot say for sure how much job security is worth. But we can say it is worth something more than zero and we believe that our estimates are reasonable or even conservative.

Comparing the American housing finance system to other countries makes clear that one thing remarkable and indeed unique in the world about American housing finance was the dominant and disproportionate role played by government-sponsored enterprises

India's democratic institutions, freedom, and social capital rank it thirty places above its rival China in the 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index.

Nationwide, as governors and legislators seek to rein in labor costs, public-employee unions are protesting that their members are actually underpaid. But a growing body of evidence strongly suggests that their protests have no basis in fact.

Many deaths that occur from malaria each year could be avoided if antimalarial drugs were effective, of good quality, and used correctly.

Are Americans better off today than they were before Barack Obama was elected to office? Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and economist John Lott, Jr. argue in "Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future" that spending increases, mounting debt, new regulations and higher tax rates answer this question with a resounding “no.”