While seeking to make college more affordable and accessible, the Obama administration has launched a worrisome but largely unnoticed assault upon the nation's publishers and the vibrant market in online learning.

In the world of science policy, it is not a matter of truth on one side and distortion on the other. Each side exploits ambiguities and uncertainties to suit its needs.

Reaffirming the principle that nascent life not be destroyed for the sake of research,Bush chose to permit federal funds to be used for research only on already existing embryonic stem cell lines.

Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need. Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn.

Women do not have an assigned place. Women are various. One size does not fit all.

Substandard and counterfeit drugs can be lethal to patients and accelerate drug resistance across at-risk populations.

Improving healthcare will require increased focus on the gap between the clinical practice of medicine and health as it's experienced in real life.

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.