Prospective college students lack basic information about college costs and quality--and how they vary across institutions--on which to base their investment decisions. This lack of information handicaps the ability of students to be the savvy consumers that a well-functioning market requires, freeing poor-performing institutions to operate at will.

For America and her allies, dealing with the North Korean regime (to borrow a phrase from the current administration’s own Samantha Power) is a “problem from hell.”

When asked how to boost America’s educational competiveness, a staple response is the emphatic assertion that we need to be more like nation X.  But, just for a moment, let’s entertain the radical proposition that a better course is to tap into uniquely American strengths like federalism, entrepreneurial dynamism, and size and heterogeneity.

The swing states in the 2008 election are going through tough economic times, which benefits the Democratic candidate.

J. M. Barrie's famous 1904 play, Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, reflected the difficulty of the young entering the adult world in Victorian times. The story, still enormously popular, made the refusal to grow up sound charming. Far less charming is the thwarted transition to adulthood...

Thomas Sowell discussed his latest book, Conquests and Cultures: An International History, at AEI on May 21.

Summary and analysis of the major proceedings of the Supreme Court's 2005-2006 Term.

Michael Rubin criticizes an analysis of former Iranian president Muhammad Khatami and gives limited praise to a book examining Sino-Iranian relations.