The life expectancy of Iran's nuclear physicists is falling rapidly and is almost as low as civil-rights activists, journalists, and public intellectuals.

AEI resident scholar Mackenzie Eaglen was testifying Wednesday to the U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in which she explained that the 2013 long-term shipbuilding plan "does not accurately portray the forces or funding necessary to execute the administration’s strategy."

The Kimberly Process has become a whitewash; Roger Bate reports from Africa.

The fierce battle over reform was based on the perception that Americans did not get good value for their money. That perception is wrong.

The health news for the New York City is good — very good, in fact. And it must be especially gratifying to Bloomberg, given his longstanding personal commitment to public health. But it isn’t clear that the official narrative of New York’s health progress actually conforms with the health story for New York over the last decade.

The growing length of retirement for men in part reflects a decline in the number of years spent working. Is this a good thing?

Japanese are disappearing in slow motion and so far, there is no rescue plan.

Barring the unimaginable, just 30 years from now, Japan will be a far smaller and vastly more aged country than the one we know today. On the cusp of a monumental demographic transformation, Japan is gradually but relentlessly evolving into a society whose contours and workings are the stuff of science fiction.