For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

AEI Election Watch 2012: American Enterprise Institute experts Karlyn Bowman and Henry Olsen discuss the results of contests in Alabama and Mississippi and preview key next battles – Puerto Rico and Illinois – in the 2012 GOP presidential contest.

The collapse of MF Global has exposed weaknesses in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's and Federal Reserve Bank of New York's ability to evaluate the risks that the institution's operations.

The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.

AEI visiting scholar Robert Kaestner and his coauthor Anthony Lo Sasso, both professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, challenge the underlying assumptions of the health law passed last March in a new study.

The current dependence upon a small and select number of primary dealers is neither necessary nor in the best interests of taxpayers.