When the G8 major economies convened at Camp David last weekend, the continuing crisis of the euro, common currency of 17 European Union (EU) members, dominated the economic discussions. The agonies of Greece, badly divided in recent parliamentary elections, and forced to vote again on 17 June, were at the forefront.

Unlocking "unconventional" energy requires unconventional politics, and that's one resource that is genuinely scarce among today's backwards-looking bureaucrats and green interest groups.

In a recent post, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) education expert Andrew Kelly highlights a notable trend: prestigious academic institutions are beginning to offer open, online courses. Kelly explains that if employers and less prestigious colleges begin to accept the credit earned in these...

On Tuesday, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff announced a shift in the way the Urban Area Security Initiative--a grant targeting the "most at risk cities"--is allocated.

Join us for a discussion of the rare earth elements and the policy ramifications of their scarcity, geographic distribution, environmental impacts, and near-monopolistic market.

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Millions of people around the world lack access to clean, affordable water—a problem that has been greatly exacerbated by poor policy choices. In many countries, government subsidies and excessive regulation have created perverse incentives resulting in a diminishing...

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

Recent supply problems result mainly from governments" market interference, rather than underlying scarcity of the actual fossil fuels.