Liberals often speak in seemingly harmless cliches that they hope will penetrate our mental defenses. Here are some of the most egregious examples.

In reminding us how very different the present global economic cycle is from previous postwar economic cycles, Martin Wolf makes a number of fine points. However, the one salient point that he does not emphasise is how very compromised are the public finances in many major industrialised economies including the US, the UK, Japan, Italy and Spain.

Several events in recent days indicate deepening ties between Iran and Russia. To this end, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced last month in Washington, D.C., Moscow's "step-by-step" proposal for restarting negotiations with Iran.

Last week, Manhattan's appellate court gave the New York City Department of Education the go-ahead to release the names and "value-added score" rankings of thousands of the city's teachers. These scores are designed to quantify the direct impact of teachers on student performance.

In light of the academic challenge to the notion of competitiveness, AEI has gathered experts to research the value of the concept of competitiveness in different spheres. How do we define competitiveness, and is it worth pursuing as a policy goal? In what way do countries compete in various areas, including international trade, financial services and health care? 

President Obama frequently confuses explanation for persuasion, as if simply telling Americans that because he thinks X, then X must be the way to go, and nearly all of his explanations assume that disagreement with him must stem from ignorance or villainy.

An informal survey of doctors, pharmacists, health care workers in Lagos, Ondo, and Ogun, and a pilot quality assessment of essential drugs from Lagos pharmacies.

While the economy has deflated along with property values, school districts are still living within budgets built for a bubble economy.