The European Union is planning to tax all airlines that travel to and from the 27 EU nations based on the amount of carbon emissions they produce.  The tax, to be collected beginning in 2013 for prior year emissions, will be calculated based on the length of each flight. The farther the airlines travel, the heftier the tax.

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

How should teacher salary be calculated?

Increasing the minimum wage is not the best way to helpstruggling single mothers, minorities, and the poor.

The Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States

Community colleges are subsidized through direct state and local government appropriations and through student grant programs. Every student who drops out represents an investment loss by the taxpayers in that student's uncompleted education.

Join us to hear U.S. Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, discuss the Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act prior to their introduction in the U.S. House.

It’s folly to expect Beijing to seriously help in curbing Pyongyang.