New research shows that a North Carolina-style incentive-pay program has the potential to improve student learning by encouraging teachers to exert more effort on the job.

The perceived short-term benefits of drug reimportation are likely to be outweighed by the negative longer-term effects of importing price controls.

Do teacher incentives actually make our schools better? New research on North Carolina schools by Thomas Ahn of the University of Kentucky suggests that the answer is a definitive "yes."

The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability.

Nine scholars, diplomats, and defense strategists discuss the economic and security implications of a possible peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union.

The Transatlantic Law Forum (TLF) will host its fifth annual conference on October 28–29 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. The topic of the conference is "Constitutionalism in Crisis?"

At this event, experts discussed whether the euro will survive in the aftermath of the worst postwar global economic recession.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...