The ACA is the most efficient and determined pollution prevention body in Britain. Its success demonstrates the value of private initiatives against polluters.

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As regulators seek to weigh the potential benefits and risks of a new medicine, my own observation is that they tend to be both tentative and ultra-paternalistic.

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

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.

There is probably no bigger issue facing our economy than creating economic growth. Today, I'd like to talk about why growth matters so much, the importance of human capital to growth, and the moral case for economic growth.

With Congress having sent a bill to the president, a lot of people inside and outside Washington will breathe a huge sigh of relief that the trauma is over. Now get ready for the next set of "my way or the highway" showdowns.

The last thing a struggling American economy needs is regulators with itchy trigger fingers taking aim at one of the country's most dynamic sectors.