Join us for an evening of readings by Dana Gioia, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. Mr. Gioia will read several favorite passages from one of the greatest and most loved poems in Western literature, The Divine Comedy. ...

Polls show decline in public faith in Washington's solutions to economic problems.

I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to Barack Obama's demand that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy. It illustrates several of the weaknesses of this presidency.

Gifts areeconomically efficient if theygiverecipientsthings they have never tried before but end up liking.Ifyou can't think ofwhat that might be, give cash.

The permanent campaign mindset dominates politics in Congress right now. And it does not bode well for finding solutions to problems.

Deep pessimism about the nation's economy explains the cutbacks during Christmas this year.

A D.C. holiday poem inspired by Clement Clarke Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

AEI's annual Christmas poem.