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Iraq
How Iraq Was Won
The armchair generals were wrong and Donald Rumsfeld was right. Bruce Berkowitz on the new face of warfare.
What We Learned
A military historian discusses the lessons we learned—or need to learn—from the conflict in Iraq. By Victor Davis Hanson.
Democracy? In Iraq?
The short-term prospects for democracy in Iraq are mixed at best. Yet there are things we can do to improve the odds. By Hoover national fellows Chappell Lawson and Strom C. Thacker.
Staying the Course
Removing Saddam Hussein from power might turn out to have been a cakewalk compared to the challenge ahead—making Iraq democratic. By Kenneth R. Timmerman.
The Press Goes to War
Embedding reporters in military units reduced the “cynicism, general distrust, and enmity” that had marked relations between the Pentagon and the press for three decades. Hoover associate director Jeffrey C. Bliss on the first new approach to relations between the military and the media since Vietnam.
SIDEBAR: Journalists and War
Europe
“America, Non!”
The epicenter of anti-Americanism? Not the Islamic world, but Europe. By Russell A. Berman.
The Real New Europe
Political tensions between Europe and the United States notwithstanding, the “New Europe” is more American than ever. By Timothy Garton Ash.
International Relations
Patching Things Up
Anti-Americanism is surging around the world. Hoover fellow Larry Diamond explains how to win back hearts and minds.
Liberty First
Why the stakes for George Bush’s “liberty doctrine” couldn’t be higher. By Michael McFaul.
The Two Koreas
Time to Leave South Korea
Why it makes sense for U.S. forces to leave Korea’s demilitarized zone. By Thomas Henriksen.
Showdown
North Korea’s determination to develop nuclear weapons is the greatest threat the United States now faces. Hoover fellow Alice Lyman Miller explains how—and why—the Bush administration must respond.
Cuba
Why El Jefe Cracked Down
Fidel Castro may look like a blundering madman, but instead he’s calculating and entirely rational. Hoover fellow William Ratliff on a tyrant who “knows exactly what he is doing.”
Education
Our Schools Are Still at Risk
The nation’s leading proponents of education reform met recently at a Hoover Institution conference in Washington to address two critical questions: How bad are our schools—and how can we fix them? A report by Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell.
Lessons Learned in the Sunshine State
Schools in the Sunshine State are getting better. Why? Because the state has begun holding them accountable. Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, explains.
Beware the Language Police!
How the language police have gained control of our students’ textbooks. By Diane Ravitch.
Learning at Home
Home education is the fastest growing alternative to public schooling—and a good one at that. By Hoover fellows Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa.
Health Care
Diagnosis: Critical
How can we fix the nation’s health care system? By giving it a dose of the free market. By Scott W. Atlas.
Welfare Reform
“Safety Net” Semantics
As President Clinton put it, the reform of 1996 marked “the end of welfare as we know it.” What has taken its place? Hoover public affairs fellow Jeffrey Jones on coming to grips with a new kind of welfare.
History and Culture
Hurley’s Dream
How FDR almost brought democracy to Iran. By Abbas Milani.
Loudmouth
Remembering Nikita Khrushchev, the crude, poorly educated peasant who laid the groundwork for the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. By Robert Conquest.
The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
During the decade following the fall of communism, Russia became mired in poverty and crime. Hoover fellow David Satter explains what went wrong.
The Happy Cold Warrior
Arnold Beichman at 90. A celebration by Hoover media fellow David Brooks.
Beichman at 90
A Cold War warrior talks about his first nine decades. Interview by Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Hoover Archives
The Illiterate Man Is Like a Blind Man
Soviet posters from the literacy campaign of the 1920s. By Heather Farkas and Matthew Morris.
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