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Shareholder activism often has special agendas behind it

By: James R. Copland 09/21/11 7:50 PM
Shareholder activism can be beneficial. Read More

Better information could cut health care costs

By: By Paul Howard 05/05/11 10:50 PM
There’s growing bipartisan agreement that curbing America’s runaway debt will require reducing spending for government health-care programs like Medicare. To that end, President Barack Obama is trying to convince voters that we can cut “unnecessary spending” that won’t have any impact on seniors’ access to care. Read More

Legal fights over worker inventions not child’s play

By: Nicole Gelinas 04/27/11 6:44 PM
A few years ago, Bratz dolls dismayed parents whose little girls were captivated by the toys’ exaggerated hips and lips. The Bratz girls, though, packed legal smarts into their makeup-slathered plastic heads. Last week, Jade, Sasha and friends won a court victory that’s good for the free-market economy. Read More

Manhattan Moment: Nonprofits help keep civil society running

By: Howard Husock 03/09/11 7:42 AM
Among the multitude of amazing reports about the situation in Libya is what is said to be the complete absence of institutions of “civil society.”  Read More

IBM exec offers to save $900 billion in health care costs, but Obama turned him down

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 02/02/11 2:00 PM
The CEO of IBM offered the Obama administration a free software program that would have cut Medicare and Medicaid fraud by almost a trillion dollars, but he was turned down – twice. Read More

Three areas where Obama can help America innovate

By: Paul Howard 01/26/11 12:26 AM
(Editor's note: The following article was written prior to the State of the Union address.) Read More

New York City streets unplowed, but at least sanitation workers retire well

By: J.P. Freire 12/29/10 2:38 PM
A newborn baby died after waiting nine hours for care, a Brooklyn woman had to wait 30 hours before getting an ambulance, and one person even had to spend an overnight with a deceased relative, according to the New York Daily News. And how do well-paid public employees respond to the complaints? By being annoyed. Read More

Road map to save cities that fail their citizens

By: SF Examiner Editorial 11/17/10 5:40 PM
While cities have for decades been the biggest victims of failed liberal policies, they now stand a chance to provide America with a lesson in recovery. They also provide an opportunity for conservatives to push for major reforms and make significant political inroads in areas in which they presently have little presence. Read More

The coming BP bailout

By: J.P. Freire 06/07/10 12:00 AM
Think that President Obama would never allow BP to reap more benefit after its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Think again, says Nicole Gelinas. All the signs point to the president working with the British to protect BP against claims that could (justifiably) bankrupt the company: Read More
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