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

Inspired by President Obama’s cheap election-year politicking, Congress has launched into a frenzied, bipartisan panderfest over the Stafford loan program. Late last week, an emotional House speaker John Boehner led House Republicans to vote for an Obama-proposed giveaway he’d denounced just a few days previously.For those who don’t...

Perceptions of uncertain future events like credit safety or credit risk are inherently subjective and highly influenced by the views of all the others who are doing what you are doing.

Despite its philosophical and emotional appeal to liberal politicians, a straight-elimination of the payroll tax is not a practical solution to fixing Social Security's funding problems.

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

Sanctions will not persuade the Assad regime to surrender power, and talk about an embargo on luxury goods is a cruel joke.

Vice President Cheney will sit down at AEI for a conversation about 9/11, the decisions made since, lessons learned, and lessons that have not been learned.

Emotional attention directed toward the Internet and online images of other people have profoundly affected human relations, and the self-image of the human being.