Editors' NoteStudents from around the world come to the Trachtenberg School because of their desire to serve the public interest.The work we do here gives us the tools to design, analyze, and implement policy to solve society's toughest problems.It can be discouraging, then, that our country often judges policy more by who is proposing it than by its own merits.That is why we selected articles for Policy Perspectives Volume 24 that examine creative solutions for difficult problems and explore the forces that affect which solutions are selected.It is our hope that, by publishing these unique pieces, we can do our part to promote balanced, fact-based policy making.