America should notworry too much about the criticisms it receives from the rest of the world.

No one, other than a fool or a knave, could discount the threat facing us today from militant Islam.

Chinashould offer greater exchange rate flexibility in return for concrete commitments on the part of the United States to address its budget deficit problem.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige spoke at AEI on January 7 about the progress that has been made in combating racism in education.

Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

Could your new diamond engagement ring be supporting Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe?

Are there limits to federal involvement in K-12 education? What can the government really do well to improve schooling? Should it be involved at all? In this presidential election year, these and other educational hot topics are examined in Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

Introduction

For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...