Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

How do civil society organizations operate in the authoritarian environment of Vladimir Putin’s “sovereign democracy?”  To what extent are they able to further their causes despite pervasive corruption and the rule of courts that take their cues from the Kremlin?

The American Enterprise Summer Institute brings together 25 select college undergraduates for an opportunity unlike any other in Washington: a monthlong, fully-funded experience debating ideas about liberty and free enterprise and learning the principles and methods of public policy analysis.

Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

An August 17 bombing in Ingushetia highlighted a particularly violent summer in Russia's North Caucasus. But neither foreign terrorists nor poor law enforcement deserve the lion's share of the blame for the poor security situation in the region.

Companies like WorldCom, Qwest, and Global Crossing failed despite, not because of, government.

Can our kids afford to take summer vacation?

Solidarity's success was due to the courage, persistence, and sacrifice of the Polish people, and to the discipline of the Solidarity leadership. Despite the regime's policy of provocations, duplicity, and repression--Poland, remember, was under martial law for much of the 1980s--Solidarity eschewed violence and shunned those who advocated street fighting and sabotage.