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THE U.S. TAKES CONTROL OF CRIME During the last decade and a half, crime rates fell by about a third in the United States--one of the sharpest reductions since organized [...]

Wendy Shalit, 'Modest Extremes: Why an Observant Jew Understands Sexuality Better than Hugh Hefner,' In Character, Winter 2006 (incharacter.org) Wendy Shalit here presents an argument for less explicit presentations of [...]

Arvind Panagariya, 'The Triumph of India's Market Reforms: The Record of the 1980s and 1990s,' Cato Institute Policy Analysis # 554, 2005 (cato.org) Will China or India be the dominant [...]

Richard North, 'The Wrong Side of the Hill: The Secret Realignment of U.K. Defense Policy with the E.U.' Centre for Policy Studies, October 2005 (cps.org.uk) While moves to unify Europe [...]

Charles Murray, 'Simple Justice,' Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society in association with The Sunday Times, June 27, 2005 (civitas.org.uk) AEI scholar Charles Murray has for many years [...]

Iain Murray, 'The Nationalization of Science.' OnPoint, July 21, 2005, Competitive Enterprise Institute (cei.org) Draconian new ethics rules threaten to forbid researchers at the National Institutes of Health from having [...]

Carl Cavanagh Hodge, 'America's Empire by Default,' Foreign Policy Research Institute, Orbis, Winter 2005 (fpri.org) Is America's current broad view of its role in the world a violation of traditional [...]

Frances Smith, 'CAFTA-DR; Can Free Trade Hold Up to Special Interest Siege?' Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 26, 2005 (cei.org) One of the most important advances in recent years for flee [...]

Dan Blumenthal, 'Strengthening the U.S.-Australian Alliance: Progress and Pitfalls,' AEI Asian Outlook, April-May 2005 (aei.org) Australia's John Howard is often depicted as the third partner in the informal 'Anglosphere' alliance, [...]

Michael Greve, 'Liberals in Exile' Legal Times, May 2, 2005 (legaltimes.com) Liberal judicial theorists, led by George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen, have alleged that a secret cabal of [...]

The May re-election of Tony Blair with a comfortable majority in the U.K. parliament solves one foreign policy problem for him, but opens up another. Although Blair's Labour Party tried [...]

Thomas Donnelly, 'Strategy and Air Power,' AEI National Security Outlook, March 2005 (ad.org) As recently as September 10, 2001, air power was assumed to be the future for the American [...]

Secure ID At Last Paul Rosenzweig and James Carafano, 'Federal Standards for State-Issued Identity Cards,' Heritage Backgrounder, February 2005 (heritage.org) The fact that so many of the 9/11 hijackers traveled [...]

Neil Gilbert, 'What Do Women Really Want?' The Public Interest, Winter 2005 (thepublicinterest.com) University of California at Berkeley professor Neil Gilbert takes a look at the recent spate of articles [...]

Ensuring Insurance Joseph Antos, 'Kerry, Bush and the Uninsured,' AEI Health Policy Outlook, September/October 2004 (aei.org) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 45 million Americans, or 15 percent, were [...]

As a long-time devotee of science fiction, I have always been excited by the possibility that mankind might encounter extraterrestrial life. But I have always tried to apply the rules [...]

Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, Lessons and Limits of Climate History: Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual?, The George C. Marshall Institute, April 2003 (marshall.org) Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, [...]

As a Briton, I am used to health service in crisis. Britain now spends only 6 percent of its gross domestic product on health care; America spends 13 percent. British [...]

Two centuries ago, protofeminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a treatise entitled 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' in which she theorized that men and women are essentially the same. The [...]

Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse VII: Teens, Parents, and Siblings, Columbia University, August 2002 (www.casacolumbia.org) A Columbia University research center [...]

Nadia Solowij, et al., 'The Long-Term Negative Effects of Cannabis Use' in Journal of the American Medical Association (March 6, 2002), 515 N. State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 Many drug [...]

Adam Lerrick, 'Forgive the World Bank, But Don't Forget,' AEI Development Policy Outlook, 2006 (aei.org) A new study endorses debt relief for impoverished nations and root-and-branch reform of the World [...]

Kate Ravilious, 'Gladiators Played by the Rules, Skulls Suggest,' National Geographic News, March 2006 (nationalgeographic.org) A gladiatorial killing zone as an arena for honor and fair play? It may sound [...]

Allister Heath, 'Flat Tax: Towards a British Model,' The TaxPayers' Alliance, 2006 (taxpayersalliance.com) British journalist Allister Heath describes the growing realization of economists and finance ministers worldwide that the current [...]

Barbara Cameron, et al., 'Prolonged Illness After Infectious Mononucleosis Is Associated with Altered Immunity,' Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2006 (journals.uchicago.edu/jid) Some people claim that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) affects over [...]

Vance Serchuk, 'Army Building and Nation Building,' AEI National Security Outlook, February 2006 (aei.org) Napoleon Bonaparte derided the Duke of Wellington as a 'sepoy general,' and indeed it was as [...]

Arthur Diamond, 'Relative Success of Private Funders and Government Funders in Funding Important Science' European Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming (cba.unomaha.edu) Since Truman, much of America's basic scientific research [...]

Nigel Aylwin-Foster, 'Changing the Army for Counterinsurgency Operations,' Military Review, November-December 2005 (leavenworth.army.rail) Although the U.S. Army is an acknowledged master of conventional war, it isn't as adept at tying [...]

John Makin, 'Why the Dollar Is Rising ... Again;' AEI Economic Outlook, December 2005 (aei.org) According to AEI visiting scholar A John Makin, the dollar, like a Republican President ... [...]

Kay Hymowitz, 'Marriage and Caste: America's Chief Source of Inequality?' City Journal, Winter 2006 (city-journal.org) After analyzing data on family structure, Kay Hymowitz of City Journal concludes that different attitudes [...]

Veronique de Rugy, 'Are Small Businesses the Engine of Growth?' AEI Working Paper #123, 2005 (aei.org) Presidents Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush have all pointed to small businesses as [...]

Doug Bandow, 'LOST at Sea: Don't Resurrect the Law of the Sea Treaty' Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, October 13, 2005 (cato.org) After rejecting it under President Reagan in 1982, the [...]

Jennifer Karberg and Doris James, 'Substance Dependence, Abuse and Treatment of Jail Inmates, 2002,' Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2005 (ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs) Over two thirds of local jail inmates are alcohol [...]

R. A. Pielke, et al.,'Hurricanes and Global Warming,' Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 2005 (sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus) In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, media commentators have pushed [...]

Rebecca O'Neill, 'Fiscal Policy and the Family: How the Family Fares in France, Germany and the U.K.,' Civitas, August 2005 (civitas.org.uk) It's conventional wisdom among Europeans that tax policy should [...]

The Fund for Peace, 'The Failed States Index,' Foreign Policy, July/August 2005 (foreignpolicy.com) The U.S. National Security Strategy concluded in 2002 that America is now threatened less by conquering states [...]