The U.S. economic recovery currently faces an increased risk of a double-dip recession and a call for Federal Reserve tightening could hardly be more ill-timed.

It is quite telling that if President Obama had to construct a strategy for defeat, it would not differ from what he and his aides describe as America’s way forward.

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Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...

The Bush administration is moving toward tighter sanctions on Iran to diminish threats of terrorism.

An amicus brief regarding Abigail Alliance v. FDA.

"The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace."

The damage of prolonged exogenous forces is already great enough to justify a rapid move to additional stimulus on both the monetary and fiscal fronts, both in the United States and abroad.

How can we use population indicators to anticipate, with some reasonable hope of accuracy, the impact of yet-unfolding demographic forces on the balance of international power?