In a new AEI volume, a group of leading economists critically examines whether the government should increase its role in five private insurance markets.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

There are some ideas that, no matter how often they rise and how spectacularly they fail, just won't go away. Perpetual motion machines, for example. Passive exercise machines. Diets that work. These technologies sound great in theory, but don't seem to pan out in practice. Add to the list, electric (or largely electric) cars.

Why do some employers decide to self-insure for their health insurance plans while others do not? Are they influenced by the fact that state laws prohibit managed care plans from restricting the employee's choice of provider? What effect would congressional or court-ordered changes to the federal law ERISA have on...

How a forced stand-off between two groups who have equal and opposing claims on the outcome could have been avoided entirely.

A university is more than the sum of its ethnic parts. It is comprised of individuals — black, white, Hispanic, Asian and others — who should be admitted or rejected without their race or ethnic heritage making any difference.

Barack Obama's 17-minute video "The Road We've Traveled" gives us an idea of how he wants to frame the issues in the fall election. The visuals are oddly antique for a president who promised hope and change.

When we empower bureaucrats to make huge personal decisions for us, it becomes impossible to avoid trampling on liberty.