Halfway through the four months I spent in Africa a couple years ago, I read a statement that now feels like a line in the sand. It went something like this: No entrepreneur can compete against donated goods. The passage went on to describe the plight of a tailor in an economically depressed town somewhere...

David Brooks’ excellent article about this week’s quake in Haiti is a must-read. Whether you agree with his diagnosis or not, he shines a light on a problem that absolutely must be addressed: there is no formulaic relationship between monetary aid and economic development/autonomy.  Haiti...

We’re all familiar with the stereotypes: “Republicans look out for the interests of big business while the Democratic Party is more concerned with the interests of the poor and needy.” Arthur C. Brooks would like to challenge those assumptions. In Who Really Cares, Brooks, a professor...