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At the Heritage Foundation recently, panelists discussed the role of subsidies in energy policy and answered the question, is subsidizing commercial energy projects the best way for America to achieve it’s energy goals?

The policies of Beverly Perdue, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, were brought into question recently by a report showing that North Carolina’s high school dropout rate is getting worse, despite millions of dollars set aside in the state budget.

At a Center for American Progress (CAP) event, panelists discussed what the Obama administration hopes to achieve, the policy issues facing the administration, the Obama administration’s vision for e-government and financial and economic transparency.

The University: An institution for research and scholarship, or an academy for advanced teaching and learning?

The system of comparative effectiveness, the study of how cost effective drugs are, is ruining health care, according to several medical experts at a panel sponsored by the Galen Institute.

One part of recovery efforts to combat a world-wide economic decline is the reexamination of international trade barriers.

“Small businesses are the heart of the American economy,” President Obama said at an event at the White House attended by small business owners.

Military campaigns in Afghanistan have a very poor record, historically.

It might pay to check the roster of financial failures and match them up with their alma maters.

The name that keeps coming up over and over is—Harvard.

At the end of 2008, Harvard hosted the inaugural Richard S. Salant lecture on Freedom of the Press, featuring Anthony Lewis, a journalist and author of several books, including the well-known Gideon’s Trumpet.

Old subsidies never die. They just get more expensive.

Are green jobs good for the economy? Four economics and law professors argue otherwise in a paper entitled “7 Myths About Green Jobs.”