As policymakers continue their efforts to reduce the government’s role in the currently nationalized housing market, the broadly available and deep subsidies provided to the five divisions of the Government Mortgage Complex continue to distort the marketplace and thwart these efforts.

The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

Karlyn Bowman is a senior fellow and Andrew Rugg is a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. The views expressed in this article are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect those of any other person or institution.

In this article, Bowman and Rugg discuss the public's opinion about...

February and March were bad months for the Western presence in Afghanistan. First the accidental burning of the Quran and then a lone soldier’s massacre of Afghan civilians undercut U.S. efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds.

Thomas P. Miller is available to comment on the Monday, January 31 decision of a Florida federal judge to declare a key portion of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

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. 

On January 31, 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued for public comment a proposed approach for recognizing impairment allowances on financial assets.

FHA Watch, a new monthly online publication, will focus on the government’s 100 percent taxpayer-backed Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage guarantee program and the risks it poses for taxpayers, families, and communities.