In a new book entitled “Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts,” Vern McKinley provides the most detailed account yet of the government’s decision-making process during these momentous events.

Legislation to raise the debt ceiling will give the government headroom to operate until 2013. But a temporary ceasefire in this fiscal war will not address the country's longer-run problems. The rating agencies are therefore justified in reconsidering America's triple-A credit rating.

In a recent letter, Martin Lobel describes as "intellectually bankrupt" our arguments against S. 940 and S. 2204, two recent bills that would have imposed unfavorable tax rules on five large oil companies that would not have applied to other taxpayers. Unfortunately, Lobel mischaracterizes our analysis of why the bills violate the rule of law.

Sir, Lawrence Summers is certainly correct in asserting that the right focus of the European countries must be on restoring economic growth if they are to restore fiscal sustainability (“Growth not austerity is the best...

In anticipation of North Korea's imminent missile launch, AEI director of Japan Studies Michael Auslin makes the case for why the US should shoot down the missile in order to preserve peace in the region.

At this event, four distinguished lawyers who have significant experience both in government and constitutional law will discuss the key constitutional issues that are essential to understand in this controversy, the precedents from similar disputes in the past, and the implications for the future if either the president’s position or the opponents' position is ultimately upheld by the courts.

Ambassador Bolton's review of John Fonte's book "Sovereignty vs. Submissions:  Will Americans Rule Themselves of be Ruled by Others?"