AEI is pleased to host a panel discussion to weigh the pros and cons of hydraulic fracturing, a technology that--depending on which side of the debate you fall on--is either our saving energy grace or a troubling new threat to environmental quality.

Is there any difference between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax?

Only domestic politics can explain two of the Obama administration's most controversial moves: exporting illegal guns to Mexico and balking at building an oil pipeline from Canada.

All Washington wants is to continue doing what it has been doing since it became a maritime power: use its Navy to enhance international peace and security, deter conflict, reassure allies, and collect intelligence. LOST undercuts these strategic imperatives, and that is why it has always been a bad idea for the United States.

President Obama's policies area recipe for fuel inefficiency.

Law of Unintended Consequences is the most frequently enacted statute in America, and the perverse outcome of well-intentioned lawmaking is on full display in California at the moment.

Beijing is taking Draconian measures to clean up for the Olympic Games starting next month.

Children do not make their individual parents very happy, but they offer the broader society huge benefits.