Iraq

Dispatches from the Front
Victor Davis Hanson visits Iraq.

Economic Strategy Is Paying Off
A call for a “surge” in jobs and prosperity in Iraq, whose rising economy has gone unheralded. By John B. Taylor.

If Iraq Fell
Withdrawing from Iraq wouldn’t produce a happy ending—not for America, not for the world. By Josef Joffe.

Iran

Moral Paralysis*
Western Europe failed to stop Germany seven decades ago. Will we fail to stop Iran today? By Thomas Sowell.

Terrorism

The Proper Use of Power
Fans and critics alike seem to believe that a new book, The Terror Presidency, presents a thoroughgoing condemnation of presidential authority. It doesn’t. By Benjamin Wittes.

The Wiretap Flap Continues
Technology and terrorism have changed. Laws on intercepts need to change, too. By Bruce Berkowitz.

The Economy

Chill Wind from 1914
How a geopolitical chain reaction could once again cause a global cataclysm. By Niall Ferguson.

Taxes

Complete the Revolution
Milton Friedman wanted the government to spend taxpayers’ money just as the taxpayers themselves wished. Here’s a reform that would ensure the government did just that. By Robert Leeson.

Education

No Child Left Alone
A thorough education—in government intrusion. By Andrew Ferguson.

Seeds of Competitiveness
High schoolers need the liberal arts, not just the technical ones. By Chester E. Finn Jr. and Diane Ravitch.

The Environment

On the Horizon, a Climate Consensus
Why not replace the Kyoto Protocol with something that really works? What we can learn from the Montreal Protocol on ozone, by one of the diplomats who drafted it. By George P. Shultz.

Running on Empty
Why corn-based ethanol isn’t the solution. By Henry I. Miller and Colin A. Carter.

Sunscreen for Planet Earth
The exotic solutions to global warming might just work. By Fred C. Iklé and Lowell L. Wood.

Politics

Back to the Town Hall
Why conservatives should embrace deliberative democracy. By David Davenport.

The Strategy of Campaigning
How Ronald Reagan outmaneuvered Jimmy Carter. By Kiron K. Skinner, Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza Rice.

Golden Headache
As it does every four years, California is once again struggling to ensure that its presidential primary will matter. Good luck. By Bill Whalen.

Latin America

Che Guevara, Apostle of War
An icon of peaceful idealism? In real life, Che was an exponent of violence. By William Ratliff.

Britain

Labour's Love Lost
Why Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s political honeymoon ended almost before it began. By Gerald A. Dorfman.

Israel

Two Failures
How the kibbutz and socialism faded away together. By Gary S. Becker.

Russia

A Touch of Menace
Vladimir Putin. We may not know what he’s thinking, but we know only too much about his methods. By Robert Service.

More Stick, Less Carrot
Why Russia won’t play nice. By Michael McFaul.

Right and Wrong in Russia
The moral and spiritual malaise of a great nation. By David Satter.

Burma

Images of Injustice
There is frustratingly little the West can do for Burma. Burma’s neighbors, however, could do much. By Timothy Garton Ash.

Profiles

It All Adds Up
Game theory is no game. The work of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. By Michael A. M. Lerner.

Robert Barro's Greatest Hits
A pioneer of macroeconomics who is still covering new ground. By Prakash Loungani.

Interviews

The High-Wire Act of Barack Obama
Shelby Steele on a black presidential candidate—and what his campaign says about the country.

Invisible Hand in Cyberspace
Economist Michael Boskin has a new position: adviser to an imaginary world. By Daniel Terdiman.

History and Culture

Gary S. Becker: Innovator and Guide
The Hoover senior fellow and groundbreaking economist is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Well-Spoken Dictators
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn't the first tyrant to speak at Columbia. Arnold Beichman remembers when Hitler's ambassador showed up in 1933.

Hoover Archives

Bitter Harvest
The great famine certainly demonstrated Stalin's cruelty, but was it genocide? By Michael Ellman.

Communism Inc.
Over time, the Soviet Communist Party became oddly businesslike. By Eugenia Belova and Valery Lazarev.

Master and Masterpiece
Boris Pasternak's great work, Doctor Zhivago, has turned 50. The Hoover Institution shared some of its vast collection of documents and photos for an international symposium. By Leonora Soroka.