In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

In February 2012, President Obama announced the end of No Child Left Behind as we know it: waivers for any state willing to meet the Administration's standards. In the latest American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Education Outlook, Ben Riley from NewSchools Venture Fund explains the potential perils of this plan.

Obama's 2011 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility plan grants certain states waivers from No Child Left Behind accountability requirements if they agree to a series of preset conditions, but the waiver plan poses several notable risks.

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.

Kicking the can down the road. That's been the Obama administration's response on issues from Iran's nuclear weapons program to America's entitlement systems.

Since when do elected officials get to decide that they are “done compromising,” as the president’s chief of staff asserted?

Somali pirates have evolved from a small group of bandits into a sophisticated global organization with hijackers, investors, guards, professional negotiators and money laundering agents working in tandem. This efficiency has made it very difficult to counter the threat of piracy but targeting financers and negotiators is part of a more proactive strategy being adopted by the United States.