Once little more than a blip on the radar of American higher education, for-profit colleges now enroll about 1 in 10 of the nation’s postsecondary students. And this fast growth has not gone unremarked. The past year has brought unprecedented scrutiny and often harsh criticism of proprietary education from policy makers, regulators, and the news media.

The Bush administration"s eRulemaking Initiative will have important implications for access to regulatory information for those who work on rules and those who are affected by rules.

The current consolidation program breeds inequities and carries potential costs that dwarf those of the underlying student-loan system.

This study discusses projected costs of the federal government's student loan consolidation program.

EU farm aid not only subsidizes inefficiency, but also has enormously damaging effects on poor African farmers.

We should express our outrage, use our influence to bring about deeper cuts in subsidies and make fundamental reform a centerpiece of our foreign policy for the developing world.

This panel will explore potential positive and negative economic and environmental impacts from a national carbon tax in the post-cap-and-trade policy environment.

In the past couple of weeks, people who care about American politics and about Congress have lost two important figures: Harry McPherson and James Q. Wilson.