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.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

The fierce battle over reform was based on the perception that Americans did not get good value for their money. That perception is wrong.

Obama's comment reminds general election voters, most of whom dislike his current major policies, that he might go even further "after my election."

In his latest Economic Outlook, AEI economist John Makin offers a prescription to avoid the slow death of the US economy.

Economic progress and advances of medical technology have helped increase life expectancy. Nevertheless, a marked aging of the population has raised concerns that this progress may increase health care spending beyond sustainable levels. In previous research, Swiss economist Peter Zweifel found however that the share of the population approaching death--that...

A more powerful but unfriendly Russia could pose America and the West with plenty of problems. But there is a real chance in the years ahead that we may instead confront a *weaker* Russia: controlled by an ambitious and aggressive directorate surprised by the course events are taking, and not shy about resorting to nuclear diplomacy.