The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

Events have been changing so quickly that even economics teachers are having trouble keeping up.

The most amazing year of living politically dangerously has just rolled by, and those bratty, rich kids in the Clinton gang have taken the Administration Building by storm. 

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

Will the new Congress challenge the Obama administration's foreign and defense policies? And, if it does, will it do so in the name of strengthening and preserving American global leadership, or not?

Freshman in Congress need to make health care a two-way truce. There is actually a huge acreage of common ground in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that can and should be the basis for debate and ultimately for compromise.

Columbia will participate in a student vote to decide whether ROTC should return to campus, and there are good reasons to be optimistic.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute.