Pushing government decisions down to the lowest democratic level possible — while protecting basic civil rights — guarantees that more people will have a say in how they live their lives.

An analysis of why current public sector pension accounting standards understate liabilities and encourage excessive risk-taking

We cannot say for sure how much job security is worth. But we can say it is worth something more than zero and we believe that our estimates are reasonable or even conservative.

Super committee members Sen. Pat Toomey and Rep. Jeb Hensarling are taking flak from some conservatives for proposing a deal including increases in "revenues." But it's worth taking a look at what Toomey and Hensarling actually were talking about. It may not matter now but could after 2012.

Local security forces do not offset the risks incurred by premature withdrawal of combat forces from Afghanistan. In fact, premature withdrawal of combat forces undermines the local security effort.

While federal policy battles and international affairs dominate the news cycle, America’s state and local governments quietly wrestle with their own challenges.

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political left. Philosopher Roger Scruton agrees that the environment is the most urgent political problem of our age but argues in his new book "How to Think Seriously About the Planet" that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism.

While the Common Core effort to impose uniform national standards on K-12 schooling is a good start toward testing new educational techniques on a level playing field, increasing federal control over education could have major drawbacks.