For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

A new poll by AEI's Program on American Citizenship finds that Americans are deeply skeptical about school efforts to educate the next generation of voters. Our report also finds that teachers and the average American citizen have markedly different priorities.

This analysis of the Public Citizen report and evidence collected in California and elsewhere reveals different and positive conclusions about the state of consumer arbitration.

Al Armendariz, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in the oil-rich Southwest region, resigned from his post, effective Monday. It’s the latest twist in the never-ending and increasingly ugly fracking fracas. A two-year old video had surfaced last week (and since pulled) featuring Armendariz comparing his “philosophy of enforcement” to...

There may or may not be something to the "crony capitalism" charges against Rick Perry. But conservatives should pause before taking the word of a secretive, left-wing, Soros-funded organization that has spent the last 15 years attacking conservative politicians who work to rein in trial lawyers and institute pro-business reforms.

A survey of over 1,000 public and private high school civic studies teachers says American high schoolers do not know what it means to be a citizen.

The digital revolution is opening the doors for greater citizen participation in political events and government should create incentives to engage and expand the role of small donors.

President Obama's decision to put Anwar al-Awlaki on a secret assassination list begs the question--can Congress's authorization of the president's right to use necessary and appropriate military force likewise authorize a President-approved assassination?