American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Scott Gottlieb, MD a former senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warns that a new ruling by CMS will force people to get open-heart surgeries that might have been avoidable.

In October of 2009, Kumud Majumder, the father of an 11-year-old son with advanced leukemia, joined a lawsuit challenging the federal ban on compensating bone-marrow donors. He wanted to save his son's life. Last week Mr. Majumder and his co-plaintiffs enjoyed a victory. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the majority of bone-marrow donors may lawfully be compensated.

In 2006, Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved Proposal 2, ending state-sponsored discrimination via race-based preferences in college admissions, hiring, and contracting. But a recent federal court ruling has temporarily overturned the will of Michigan voters, opening the door for affirmative action's return to Michigan.

The current financial crisis is an entirely political phenomenon, caused by bad regulation and overcome only by the reestablishment of an institutional system based on responsibility and on the assumption of reasonable risk.

AEI health policy scholar Thomas P. Miller will be available to comment on the implications of the ruling in Virginia on the constitutionality of the nation's health care overhaul.

The idea that corporations are the equivalent of people leads directly to the next step: direct contributions to candidates from corporate coffers, not just unlimited expenditures to influence campaigns.

The upcoming Voting Rights Act ruling will expose those Supreme Court justices--both conservative and liberal--who practice judicial activism.

It is not secular, liberal, or democratic. In fact, Prime Minister ErdoÄŸan has become the Turkish Vladimir Putin.