The typical sales tax applies primarily to sales of goods and exempts many types of consumer services. The disparate treatment of goods and services has been uniformly condemned by tax policy scholars because it creates economic inefficiency and complexity.

A final overhaul of net neutrality faces steep odds with a Democratic-controlled Senate and a pro-net-neutrality Barack Obama wielding a veto pen. But Upton's move generates a fresh opportunity to revisit the net neutrality debate in light of recent developments.

Google and Verizon teaming up may sound scary to some, but robust competition, even among just a handful of firms, will be our best protector and will ultimately benefit consumers.

At a time when presidential powers of war and peace are under scrutiny, it is useful to look back at the nation's first national security crisis and examine how Washington exercised those authorities in the face of that crisis.

Remaining silent is not neutral; it is casting a vote for the status quo, including the primacy of the supreme leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Bad things can come in small packages. The latest exhibit is a recently proposed regulation of the Internet.

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

Congress has introduced several bills on net neutrality, but mostof themare likely to do more harm than good.