What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

While everyone says they want more innovation, words are easy. The tough, practical questions remain: How do we get more innovation and how do we harness it?

Policymakers at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue want to get the American economy growing again. Growth can lower unemployment, and it can yield the revenues needed to fill federal coffers. The key to robust economic growth is innovation. So how do we get it?

The world's transportation system will continue to be powered by petroleum for the coming decades so the United States' top priority should be studying the spill and learning from the mistakes that were made.

The Deepwater Horizon spill is clearly an ecological disaster, but overreaction to it could cause more environmental and economic harm than good.

While the political currents on the mainland are moving against Republicans, those around Hawaii swirl against an ensconced Democratic old guard.

The Department of Transportationshould auction airline slots for takeoff and landingto ensure that airlines and communities that put the highest value on air travel are most likely to get them.

AEI's Election Watch series returns in 2012 for its sixteenth season, bringing together AEI's nationally renowned team of political analysts.