Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

The costs of disability programs are rising at an unsustainable pace. In all likelihood this will produce calls for program reforms. More systematic solutions should be considered, like experience rating SSDI payroll taxes.

While Bo's story is about power, it should not obscure the fact that there is an ideological struggle going on inside China.

Two years after its enactment, ObamaCare remains unpopular, unaffordable and unworkable. This week, three days of oral argument before the Supreme Court should confirm that it’s also unconstitutional.

Will the Obama administration's Race to the Top (RTT) program initiate a self-sustaining cycle of education reform in states? Will states deliver on their promised reforms?

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

Government subsidies for electric vehicles tilt the playing field, constrain the market's ability to operate, and betray a lack of faith in the ingenuity and vitality of the marketplace.

President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have been co-opting much of the GOP playbook on education. But on spending, they have acted like traditional borrow-and-spend Democrats.