The Doha Round will most likely not be completed in 2011, although it would go farther than any other single trade advance to further the goals of doubling US exports by 2014.

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

Trying to rescue the European Union's failed political objectives should be off the table in Washington.

If Occupy Wall Street is a sincere, organic, grassroots movement for radical change and overturning the status quo, it can't be 100 percent behind the guy who's been running the country for the last three years.

Why is the process of restructuring so different in electricity than in other infrastructure industries?

People are misrepresenting Reagan's necessary compromises while in office, to incorrectly associate him with having a liberal agenda.

That government policies have "unintended consequences" is a staple of both political rhetoric and policy analysis. In its strongest form, the argument is that policy consequences are not only unintended but perverse--they make the problems they address worse rather than better. These arguments are pervasive, but are they simply rhetorical...