The general economic "health" of the U.S. manufacturing sector has re-emerged in a Presidential election year. In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama announced to Americans "that we have a huge opportunity, at this moment to bring manufacturing back," promising manufacturers special tax reductions and other federal...

For several years now, President Obama and his allies in the environmental movement have promised to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs that “can’t be outsourced.”

Sponsored by AEI's Program on American Citizenship, Frederick M. Hess, AEI's director of education policy studies; Meira Levinson, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and David E. Campbell, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, have commissioned leading researchers and scholars to explore the issues of citizenship and schooling by looking at domestic and international data, teacher training, and schools and classrooms.

A jihadist in plain sight in Lahore makes the most-wanted list.

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We cannot say for sure how much job security is worth. But we can say it is worth something more than zero and we believe that our estimates are reasonable or even conservative.

On these quite intensive days for Government and the Parliament we deem it relevant and appropriate to reflect upon the issue of competition. This word has been frequently abused and idolized as the goal of any market process instead of being considered an instrument, a process regulated for the benefit...

There are solid ways to move forward with high-speed rail in the United States, but a new line between San Francisco and Los Angeles is not among them.