While counterfeits must be combated, drugs that are legally but poorly produced, substandard medicines-the subject of today's briefing-tend to get a free pass, even when they kill.

It seems that the Iraqi military does not share Secretary Panetta’s confidence that it is ready to handle security without a significant U.S. military footprint.

Recently there have been a number of disturbing economic and political developments in Europe that heighten the risk that the Eurozone will experience a spate of sovereign debt defaults within the next six months.

Tensions in the South China Sea have been on the rise following a number of incidents at sea and tough rhetoric among the claimants to the sea's waters and islands.

SSgt Gutierrez’s story, like that of other winners of the Medal of Honor and service Crosses, reveals unimaginable gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life. It also gives a peek at the American way of fighting that integrates all elements of military power into a force that can defeat any battlefield challengers. However, it also is a system that may no longer operate as effectively after hundreds of billions of dollars are stripped from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

The report of the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform--although it attempts to call my conduct into question as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission--actually indicts the Commission.

Committees of the new US Congress may want to hold hearings concerning halting aid dispersion to the Global Fund in the coming weeks.

AEI's 2009 Annual Report covers AEI's work over the course of the past year, books that have been published by AEI scholars and the AEI Press, financial information for the Institute, and more.