The Environmental Protection Agency’s reasons for not using its usual approach to regulating greenhouse gases unwittingly shows that it is obsolete for controlling conventional pollutants. Congress should update the Clean Air Act.

Issues surrounding death and dying have reentered the Supreme Court--and our personal lives.

Will the aging of the Third World have unanticipated spillover effects for the world economy? The answer is not yet clear--but it is none too early to begin asking the question.

The banking industry suffered credit crises in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. An unavoidable conclusion is that its loan loss reserves were in all cases too small. 

Over the past two decades, the share of working age Americans collecting disability insurance payments has doubled, from 2.3 to 4.6 percent of the population aged 25 to 64, with the largest increases coming among women.

We've never had a nerd president. White House correspondents call their gala the 'nerd prom' because it sounds self-deprecating around celebrities and bigwigs.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

In a new report on the troubling future of the U.S. Air Force, AEI defense scholar Mackenzie Eaglen examines how the defense cuts cripple air power as a component of our defense system and explains why serious investment in the Air Force is crucial to U.S. military strategy.