This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, will speak at AEI to explain the dynamics surrounding the pending FTAs and Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Health care policy and health care reform are back in the news in a big way. The Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul. The Obama administration has just released guidelines for the operation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are the backbone of the law.

Until government price controls are lifted, the makers of generics will be unable to cover their production costs.

The division of power on trade between the White House and Congress has been a problem for decades.

We are deeply uninformed when it comes to how the government spends its budget, and American's enjoy the bulk of the programs that actually make up government.

The chances of solving the country's fiscal problems, like the federal budget deficit and increase in entitlement spending, seem a little better after the release of two sets of proposals in the weeks after the election.

Robert H. Bork, Supreme Court nominee whose conservative pronouncements have made him a beacon for right-leaning politicians and jurists, finds himself in an odd position of late.