Our current "Great Recession" has hit the poor and middle class hard, but does this short-term downturn in prosperity characterize the last three decades? Bruce Meyer from the University of Chicago and James Sullivan from the University of Notre Dame take the long view and argue that things are not as bad as we think.

Sponsored by AEI's Program on American Citizenship, Frederick M. Hess, AEI's director of education policy studies; Meira Levinson, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and David E. Campbell, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, have commissioned leading researchers and scholars to explore the issues of citizenship and schooling by looking at domestic and international data, teacher training, and schools and classrooms.

This book is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage.

Not long ago, the Business School of the Jesuit University of Wheeling printed up a T-shirt for its annual gathering, inscribed as follows:

The Calling of BusinessIs to SupportThe Reality and Reputation ofCapitalism, Democracy, and Moral Purpose EverywhereAnd Not in Any Way to Undermine Them

Ave Maria University and it's professors have mixed feelings about Jackson labs not constructing a location nearby.

The U.S. economy has grown considerably over the past three decades. However, there is a prevailing sentiment that the middle class and the poor have been left behind. Our results show evidence of considerable improvement in material well-being for both the middle class and the poor over the past three decades.

L'Osservatore Romano fails to grasp the full threat President Obama poses for the American Catholic conscience.

In the eleven weeks since he became president, Barack Obama has opened up every avenue to abortion presented to him.