The European sovereign debt crisis is now entering a critical phase, which U.S. economic policymakers would be ignoring at their peril. And if there is one thing that policymakers should have learnt from the Lehman fiasco it is that a banking crisis in a major part of the global economy can have serious economic and financial consequences for the rest of the world economy.

At this AEI event, Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, will discuss the findings of this year's Medicare trustees report.

The European Central Bank president, Jean-Claude Trichet, asserts that Europe's sovereign debt crisis does not pose a significant threat to the overall European economy, let alone to the global economy.

This AEI conference on the one-year anniversary of the tragedy, featuring a keynote speech by Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki followed by a panel of experts, will examine the pressing questions surrounding these events.

The listing of the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act will almost surely go down in history as the turning point in the global warming debate.

Japan and the United States represent two of the world’s largest economies, with an interdependent trade relationship that surpassed $200 billion in 2007. Confronted by a restructuring of the world’s financial system and changes to the global trade environment, including American protectionism, the growth of Chinese export power, and the...