Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

Today we live in an America with enormous cultural variety in which very few things are considered universally verboten. But on college campus it's different.

The FDA is restricting the speech of private drug firms. This may violate the First Amendment rights of drugs companies.

The Obama administration is gambling that, with time, firms will flourish, stocks will rise, and market interventions will be vindicated. But it is placing these high-stakes bets with taxpayer funds.

The government’s reluctance to sell may be comforting to those who worry that it is too eager to recede from being a major stockholder in large private corporations, or who believe that stocks have nowhere to go but up.

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...

Many still do not realize how close we came to Depression-like disaster, and how much the fiscal policies the Bush and Obama administrations were responsible for keeping us out of economic hell, even if the result was economic purgatory.

Uncle Sam's ability to directly address teacher distribution warrants skepticism.