Governor Romney's defenders have argued that critics of his role at Bain Capital are really attacking capitalism itself. Given the academic evidence, we would have to agree.

The likely nomination of Elizabeth Warren to serve as the director for the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suspicious due to her questionable and seemingly biased research methods.

An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.

Requirements to test new drugs against older medicines would add a major hurdle to the development and approval of new medicines. Equally important, the proposed mandates are unnecessary.

The authors chronicle changes in U.S. attitudes about health care and consider policy trade-offs and problems of a tax credit/voucher system to finance health insurance.

What happens to delinquents over the long haul?

To reduce spending and more appropriately limit geographic variation in utilization among Medicare beneficiaries, the program should consider the utilization-management techniques employed in the private sector as a model.

A new AEI study reviews the arguments for and against tax credits or vouchers to obtain health insurance coverage.