Regulatory drag can be reduced only as part of a reform that credibly promises to ease burdens and protect the public. Such reform is possible, but it needs to start by changing how Congress approaches regulation: lawmakers must assume responsibility for rule-making.

What do you do when the party affiliation of a president affects your favorite sports team?

Obama's 2011 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility plan grants certain states waivers from No Child Left Behind accountability requirements if they agree to a series of preset conditions, but the waiver plan poses several notable risks.

Mubarak's fall will have even deeper reverberations throughout the region than Ben Ali's did. Which will be the next dominoes to drop?

Robert G. Kaiser tells the story of how earmarks grew into a huge business and distorted our politics.

Politicians have frequently directed harsh rhetoric toward particular corporate taxpayers that earn high profits. At times, this rhetoric has been accompanied by policy proposals that single out a narrow set of profitable taxpayers for disparate treatment. Perhaps the most notable example is the war against Big Oil.

If American mortgage borrowers act in their own narrow interests, as "knaves," they might yet cause an economic collapse worse than anything we have suffered.

Why is marijuana, of all drugs, the main target of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy?