Until the legislative process takes into account the long-term consequences of short-term policy actions (and inactions), we have no assurance that Medicare can be saved.

Do conservatives just want to cut government willy-nilly, not only reducing its overall size but endangering its ability to carry out its proper functions?

On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which passed by a large bipartisan majority in the Congress. The Act is designed to facilitate the equity funding of new companies. Recent research has documented that from 1980 through the 2008-09 recession new companies have been main drivers of job creation in the United States. 

With a largely unsuccessful history of UN reform efforts, a revolutionary change might actually produce a different result: moving toward voluntary funding of the UN and its activities.

After accusing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of using foreign funding for election ads, Democrats should answer the same charges about whether organized labor is using foreign money to elect Democrats this November.

Disparities in the scoring of Race to the Top finalists raise red flags about the objectivity of the process, and that scoring may have been affected by political influences.

Government subsidies for electric vehicles tilt the playing field, constrain the market's ability to operate, and betray a lack of faith in the ingenuity and vitality of the marketplace.

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.