The drug regulatory system in India needs to be improved for domestic consumption and because India is an increasingly important exporter of drugs for both developed and developing countries.

Harvard Graduate School of Education's Meira Levinson argues that recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking their curricula. Drawing on political theory, empirical research and her own experience from teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education.

The United States and its allies and partners must not only understand Iran’s regional strategy and influence but also develop a coherent strategy of their own with which to confront them. Considering the relative economic, political, and diplomatic power of the two sides, it is unacceptable for the United States and its allies to allow Iran even such progress as it has made in these realms.

The main obstacle to access for essential medicines is the high tariffs that poor countries impose on medicines and medical devices.

Testimony to thePresident’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), the first part emphasizing the strainrelated to tariffs on medicines, markups and access to essential medical interventions and the second part regarding mission creep in aid agencies.

On the correlation between tariffs and access to medicine in third-world countries.

In "It’s Even Worse Than It Looks," congressional scholars Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of AEI identify two overriding problems that have led Congress — and the United States — to the brink of institutional collapse. Mann and Ornstein call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction.

The Institute of Medicine finally released its long-awaited set of recommendations for how the Secretary of Health and Human Services should accomplish the impossible--determining the "essential health benefits" for tens of millions of Americans under the to-be-implemented Affordable Care Act.