Marriage emerged as the most popular institution throughout history primarily because it was an effective arrangement to improve the care and upbringing of children. Marriage is not necessary to have children, but it has been of enormous importance in the rearing of children.
Prosecuting His Holiness for his complicity in the Catholic Church’s sex scandals is a terrible idea, writes Tunku Varadarajan. Pope Benedict can solve the church’s problems himself.
Governments hate it when you succeed at escaping their tyrannical reach and so we have been witnessing extensive efforts by the feds to curtail tax dodging and avoidance. This has led to some considerable pressure exerted on banks in Switzerland, Lichtenstein and other places...
Academic interest in feminist studies has grown at an exponential rate, from a handful of centers and university departments to more than a thousand over the past fifty years…. A new field of study is developing around the theme of inequality and its relationship to minorities, poverty, school dropouts, family instability, and so forth.
Facing the toughest campaign of her career, California Sen. Barbara Boxer spent the day before Good Friday working the Northern California media and making her case for a fourth sixth-year hitch in Washington.
Barro’s critique of the Obama stimulus package provoked a sharp attack from Paul Krugman in The New York Times, which brought a spirited response from Barro. Basing his arguments on his empirical work, Barro takes issue with some common assumptions about the Great Depression, and how America got out of it.
A new Fraser Institute study published last week -- Did Government Stimulus Fuel Economic Growth in Canada? An Analysis of Statistics Canada Data -- found the federal government's deficit-financed $47.2-billion Economic Action Plan had virtually no impact on last year's economic turnaround.
The Australian market is poised for a robust start when trading commences tomorrow after the US economy cruised into the Easter break with the release of positive jobs and manufacturing data.
In Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, leading education scholar Paul E. Peterson places today's education debate in historical context by showing how school reformers have centralized political control without accomplishing their goals for customized learning.
Skinner recently agreed to serve on the advisory board of the George W. Bush Oral History Project. The project will be conducted through the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
The biggest increase in employment in three years makes it “pretty clear” the deepest U.S. recession since the 1930s has ended, said the head of the group charged with making the call.
Nobel prize winner Gary Becker gave an interview to Peter Robinson last week, published in the Wall Street Journal. Becker, 79, is a founder of the Chicago school of economics (with Milton Friedman). His views are always important and you should read the interview.
The concept of replacing the current U.S. income tax system with a flat rate consumption tax is receiving congressional attention. The term "flat tax" is often associated with a proposal formulated by Robert E. Hall and Alvin Rabushka (H-R), two senior fellows at the Hoover Institution.
When President Barack Obama comes to Charlotte today to tour Celgard, a battery-parts maker that has received $49 million in stimulus money, he's sure to tout how government money will put people to work.
