For-profit colleges aren't the first, or even the biggest, education lobbyists. They simply learned from the best: America's beloved public and nonprofit universities.

The global system for public health donations has a crippling accountability problem.

Despite the high-profile example of Steven Slater and his aggravating passenger, there is little evidence of an epidemic of rudeness, as Americans care about common courtesy and worry properly about its erosion.

The Kimberly Process has become a whitewash; Roger Bate reports from Africa.

The rise in obesity has generated enormous popular interest and policy concern in developing countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations.

Adoption of a stakeholder approach is likely to undermine essentialresearch and developmentwhile doing little to curtail the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

With no end to the obesity epidemic in sight, several states and cities have proposed soda taxes on sugar-sweetened soda and other beverages. At this conference, experts John E. Calfee of AEI and Jamie Chriqui of the University of Illinois at Chicago will analyze the evidence on soda taxes and other measures.

That America and Europe are different, but not that different.