The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

A vigorous entrepreneurial spirit was apparent at a translational research innovation symposium at Duke University--a determination to do something outside the usual academic practice.

AEI's J.D. Kleinke examines the magnitude, symbolism, and likely impacts of the accounting rule included in the Accountable Care Act to regulate the administrative costs and profits of the health insurance industry.

Recent years have seen a rise in information-based environmental policies. This report focuses on a type of voluntary, information-based environmental policy – air quality alerts – by summarizing the recent research and contributing new findings.

Medicare Part D — delivering prescription drugs to seniors — has been a success since President Bush introduced it. And the Obama administration plans to threaten that achievement.

Business can provide the leverage, expertise, and leadership that will help educators and public officials make tough decisions and take hard steps they may not take on their own.

Broadening the use of public-private partnerships in transportation projects can build new roads, bridges, and tunnels quickly and efficiently without adding to the federal deficit.

It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.