Publications

Question: What’s the first lesson we learn from the recently passed Pension Protection Act? Answer: That most of the critics of allowing workers to deposit their Social Security contributions in a personal account either don’t have a clue about the retirement system or they simply wanted to undermine President Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security for political reasons—or both.

The nation’s governors have decided they want to play a major role in ensuring the states are at the cutting edge of innovation.

Wait, this can’t be.

Last year, when the government of India adopted its patent amendments as required by the TRIPS Agreement, health activists carried out concerted campaigns to try to avert what they characterized as a "public health disaster in the making.

You wouldn’t know it by listening to all the acrimonious condemnations, but President Bush’s veto of the stem cell funding bill passed by Congress does notstop embryonic stem cell research.

When a state is trying to recover from one of the worst natural disasters ever experienced, it makes sense to streamline regulations so as to encourage rapid expansion and investment in new infrastructure.

With recent reports predicting a lower-than-expected federal budget deficit, supply-siders have more evidence that backs up their theories—along with some unexpected challenges.

Emerging technology often forces us to face difficult ethical decisions—and sometimes it exposes bad ethical positions.

Let there be no doubt about it, big brother is here: New York City Councilman Joel Rivera.

In a June 21 announcement, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it—not Congress, mind you, but the FCC—was going to tax cellular and Internet phone companies on “only” a part of their total revenue: about 62 percent of a wireless phone company’s revenue, and about 35 percent of Internet phone companies that provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).