President Obama's message on health care reform is even more inconsistent than Mr. Bush's on Social Security, and his opponents know it.

In the latest AEI Political Report, the AEI Politics team looks at at the new phase of 2012 campaign from a variety of angles. 

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Presidential candidates campaign with soaring rhetoric, but presidents and their advisers make actual policy with spreadsheets.

Last week's big announcement by Wall Street investment giant Merrill Lynchcontains dark warnings about our economic future.

What themes in this year's State of the Union address will be carried by symbols, people, and ceremony?

Gadgets have taken over our lives -- particularly among the young, who have no defenses against them.

On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated...

Recent years have seen a rise in information-based environmental policies. This report focuses on a type of voluntary, information-based environmental policy – air quality alerts – by summarizing the recent research and contributing new findings.