Having good services cannot make up for delivering difficult but necessary budget decisions, especially if our goal is public good.

Despite widespread hope that persistent poverty could be solved, all too many contemporary locales have managed to "achieve" records of long-term economic failure in our modern era.

What explains AARP's support for Medicare cuts as a means to expand health insurance coverage to the nonelderly, a position that purportedly contributed to thousands of AARP membership cancellations?

Americans are rightly skeptical of bank nationalization. But we might need to proceed anyway.

Sanctions alone will not bring transformation in North Korea. We need a combination of engagement and subversion, a strategy that helped win the Cold War.

I hope Timothy Geithner's plan works, and I fear that it will not.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 introduced many of the Farm Bill provisions that remain present today, including precursors to the current food and nutrition programs (FANPs). This policy served multiple purposes, including enhanced demand for farm products to alleviate low farm income and reduce agricultural surpluses, and enhanced food security and improved nutrition for the poor.

Rwanda has made progress in opening itself up to foreign investment, but several challenges remain.