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Stimulus Prevents Change in Education

“Primary- and secondary-school enrollments,” observe Chester Finn and Frederick Hess, “have risen by about 10 percent since 1970, but the teacher rolls grew by 61 percent during the same period — an a More...

Worth Checking Out: What a Canadian Thinks about Health Care, Spread the Word on Energy Taxes

• Brian Lee Crowley will discuss what the United States should learn from Canada about government control of health care. Crowley, founder of the new Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, will be joi More...

Excellence in Promoting Liberty

This past Monday, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation recognized the winners of its Templeton Freedom Awards, given every year to think tanks that demonstrate excellence in promoting liberty. This More...

Slow Learners

“A recent study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,” observes Thomas Sowell, “showed that, after the housing boom and bust, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and American Indians all red More...

Kelo Comes a Cropper for New London

New London’s use of eminent domain for economic development has been a bust for a while, but things became even more embarrassing for the city in southeast Connecticut when Pfizer announced on Monday More...

Conditioned by Third-Party Payment

The health care entitlement mentality, as noted in Steven Malanga’s latest column: For years Dr. Linda Halderman operated a general surgery practice in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where she t More...

Is ObamaCare Really Fiscally Responsible?

Dan Mitchell: You can take it to the bank that government-run health care is a red-ink train wreck. More...

Scenes from the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall and the people who jumped over it, tunneled under it, got shot trying to dash to other side, protested it, and ultimately—20 years ago today—tore it down are the subject of this inspir More...

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President Obama Has a Full Plate in First Visit to China

Source: The Heritage Foundation

During his imminent visit to Asia, President Obama will stop in both Shanghai and Beijing. In the past, the benefits of the Sino-American economic relationship acted as a check against political disagreements. Unfortunately, this trip will see substantial and More...

Better off Red?

Source: Media Research Center

Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, tearing down the Iron Curtain that had sliced Europe in half since the end of World War II. Barely two years later, the Soviet Union itself disintegrated, ending the Cold War. Yet before, during and after those More...

The Oberstar Transportation Plan: A Costly Exercise in Lifestyle Modification

Source: The Heritage Foundation

In June, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, introduced a 775-page bill—the Surface Transportation Authorization Act—which would reauthorize the federal highway and transit programs that expi More...

A Meaningful Agenda for President Obama’s Meeting with Southeast Asian Leaders

Source: The Heritage Foundation

No one expects President Obama to immediately produce a list of accomplishments like the one it took the previous Administration eight years to build. It is reasonable, however, to expect the President to use this week’s U.S.-ASEAN summit meeting in Singapore More...

We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future

Source: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

In the midst of frenzied efforts to remake our nation—of endless government initiatives involved in virtually every aspect of our daily lives—Americans are increasingly concerned: How did we get so far off track? And how can we get America back on course? This More...