As the House of Representatives prepared to consider the Small Business Tax Cut Act, AEI economist Aparna Mathur gave testimony on why higher taxes and regulation on small businesses impede sustainable economic growth. 

Joseph Antos' analysis of Medicare's fiscal crisis and reform options that could make the program sustatainable; a response to a request from 16 health professionals elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for public comment on Medicare reform. 

To start down the path of sustainable economic recovery, the economy needs shock therapy: preventing deflation, reforming the tax system, and moving away from regulation.

Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

Pope Benedict XVI's message on the World Day of Peace emphasized the connection between responsibility for the environment and respect for human life.

The idealization of small-scale farms threatens to turn the clock back on farming modernization in the places that need it most.

The Obama budget proposal is now raising major issues of fiscal sustainability for the United States.

Wide-ranging, accessible, and provocative, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of American health care.