While more regulatory scrutiny of the already-chastened GSEs is probably needed, alterations that would change the system are not.

Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine the Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit his job and "set off to the University of Connecticut to get an MFA in his passion — puppetry."

Canada's experience demonstrates that government-subsidized housing finance is not necessary to promote home ownership.

The variety of international experience suggests that there is every reason to think broadly and openly about the possibilities for developing a better, post-GSE U.S. housing finance system for the future.

While the debate over the efficiency of tax relief efforts continues, Federal Reserve reports now indicate promising economic growth, with incomes and spending on the rise. In Bullish on Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger (Derrydale Press, October 2004), the Club for Growth's Stephen...

For decades, intellectual politics and policy debates in the United States have been distorted by a strange residue of liberalism, reminding us of the movement's long dominance over U.S. politics. Many liberal and progressive thinkers assume, usually implicitly, that they alone have a monopoly on knowledge about cause-and-effect relationships in...

Transparency matters. Regardless of the mansion's ownership, if President Barzani is sincere about combating corruption, he should require that every official serving in his government detail their property holdings and business interests, not only in Iraqi Kurdistan, but also abroad.

Resident scholar Steven F. Hayward addresses whether President Barack Obama is a socialist.