This event will examine more radical reforms that — while aiming to accomplish the same goals as the current Social Security program — would do so through fundamentally different structures.

Former Social Security Administration official Andrew G. Biggs explains what spending cuts mean for the future of the program.

Pakistan's historic flooding has undone months of intense counterinsurgency efforts and allowed militant Islamist groups to burnish their image.

The "Pledge to America" released by House Republicans last week is a list of cautious and moderate policies that will be extraordinarily hard for sinking Democrats to snipe at, but it also sacrifices the mandate that the Tea Party movement could have provided for more ambitious proposals.

The European Union (EU) has announced plans to levy a tax on airline emissions for all planes landing and taking off from EU airports. This tax would be calculated not only based on mileage flown in EU airspace but also for the entire length of the flight (thus, Chinese and Japanese airlines would be taxed for an entire journey from Beijing or Tokyo).

Is a cross standing in the desert a threat to political freedom or an important symbol of the religious liberty upon which this country was founded?

President Obama turns to big government in a bid to remake the U.S. economy.