Over the past decade, a number of remarkable organizations have cropped up that dramatically shape twenty-first century education reform. Joining this influx of groundbreaking, reform-minded organizations is Rice University’s Education Entrepreneurship Program (REEP), housed at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.

Unless strong action is taken, federal health spending will continue to outpace the economy for the indefinite future.

All Washington wants is to continue doing what it has been doing since it became a maritime power: use its Navy to enhance international peace and security, deter conflict, reassure allies, and collect intelligence. LOST undercuts these strategic imperatives, and that is why it has always been a bad idea for the United States.

Although the Schumer-Lee plan deserves credit for seeking to promote international capital flows and labor mobility, it would neither make a measurable dent in the housing sector's backlog nor fix a broken immigration system that hampers our economy's long-run prospects.

Over the past few decades, our economy has undergone some fundamental changes--with the result that the fight for control over the commanding heights of American economic life is still very much with us. And it is a fight that, at least for now, the free-market camp appears to be losing.

Containing and deterring a nuclear Iran may be the least-bad choice. However, that does not make it a low-risk or low-cost choice. In fact, it is about to be not a choice but a fact of life.

Arizona's immigration law and Congress's border security bill consider the inability to keep people from entering the country illegally the only problem and fail to broach other failings of the immigration system.

In order to prepare young Americans for the job market, there needs to be a greater partnership between business and education. Business leaders must engage academia head on if they want to be substantial and lasting change.