Although government can be a positive piece of the health care puzzle by facilitating competitive markets, it is the marketplace that can provide more choices, better care, higher quality, and cost based on value.

Today's utopianism, according to Jean-François Revel, has often become a subversive and, ironically, cynical tool for augmenting one's power while absolving one of the need to use it responsibly and while preserving one's saintly image.

Teacher pension systems pose two problems for K-12 schooling: they create the potential for irresponsible fiscal stewardship and they hinder efforts to boost teacher quality.

The stimulus bill has set the United States up for a truly momentous year in the history of tax policy.

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.

These essays from a diverse group of distinguished contributors deepen our understanding of the new national security threats posed by terrorism, by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and by the spread of Islamic extremism.

America's health care system faces serious challenges, and only drastic reforms will preserve its strengths while correcting its weaknesses.

At this event, Charles Blahous will be joined by AEI's Andrew G. Biggs to dissect the competing positions in the current social security debate and offer solutions to resolve their differences.