The Postal Service needs to be converted into a regular business, facing market competition and disciplined by active, focused shareholders. It must be permitted to reduce its high and rigid costs, and to adjust to the realities of a new communications marketplace. This should be done through de-monopolization, corporatization, and eventual privatization, as has been done in many other countries.

The Internet is already a major factor in Russian politics--and its influence is growing almost daily.

In a just-published op-ed in the New York Times, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) international health economist Roger Bate highlights a better way to fight fake pharmaceuticals while still giving poor Americans access to less costly drugs from online pharmacies.

Americans should be permitted to buy medicines online for personal use; there are many sites providing good quality medicines at low prices, and importation for personal use is not likely to undermine the pharmaceutical market.

More public education would help stem the problem of fake pharmaceuticals--restricting Internet trade would not.

While safety concerns about drugs purchased over the Internet may be overblown, concerns that the equalization of drug prices will decrease drug innovation are understated.

This study examines the price, conditions of purchase, and basic quality of five popular drugs purchased over the Internet.

Many of the critics of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and other legislation seeking to combat intellectual property violations on the Internet, say they are fighting efforts to “censor” the web. SOPA is many things, but if words still have meaning it cannot be fruitfully described as censorship.