Taxes and other provisions in the current health care reform legislation will inflict the sick and the elderly with higher prices.

The average household spends nearly as much on the consumption of indirect energy as it does on direct energy consumption.

This volume demonstrates how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively.

We can debate the best way forward tomorrow. But today we celebrate a victory in the war on terror, and the demise of the man who ordered the deaths of Dan Shanower and nearly 3,000 others on Sept. 11, 2001.

Some Republicans are helping environmentalists get rid of coal energy, because they have invested interests in natural gas, but who is to say that natural gas won't be next?

This Cancun meeting ought to end like the last one, with the kleptocrats sent packing with copies of the Collected Economic Wisdom of the Gipper as the best prescription for dealing with climate change.

The financial teetering of Dubai World resembles the crisis of U.S. financial institutions, but unlike the U.S. government, Dubai seems to be keeping its wallet closed.

Jonathan Rauch ofNational Journal and the Brookings Institution delivered the fourth of the Institute's 2000-2001 Bradley Lectures.