Researchers and clinicians seeking to strengthen these relationships with industry deserve to be celebrated, not demonized.

The United States and its allies and partners must not only understand Iran’s regional strategy and influence but also develop a coherent strategy of their own with which to confront them. Considering the relative economic, political, and diplomatic power of the two sides, it is unacceptable for the United States and its allies to allow Iran even such progress as it has made in these realms.

Hires, quits, and layoffs exhibit strong, highly nonlinear relationships to employer growth rates in the cross section. Simple statistical models of these relationships greatly improve our ability to account for fluctuations in aggregate worker flows and enable us to construct synthetic measures of hires, separations, quits, and layoffs back to 1990.

Consumers and doctors need to work more closely with pharmaceutical product developers.

Tom Miller's proposals for Medicaid reform. 

The Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, but also is becoming a major diplomatic embarrassment for the Obama administration.

How Bush, Lott, and Hastert manage their relationships with DeLay will have more to do with their collective and individual success in 2003 and 2004 than anything Democratic leaders like Pelosi do or say.