The Economy

Getting Off Track
How the government created and prolonged the financial crisis. By John B. Taylor.

The Center Cannot Hold
President Obama? A centrist? The administration’s economic policy and budget have now destroyed that illusion. By Michael J. Boskin.

Don’t Let the Cure Destroy Capitalism
When a diagnosis is too broad, the medicine may do more harm than good. By Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy.

Sadder but Wiser*
For the “victims” of the foreclosures, an overdue case of live and learn. By Thomas Sowell.

Borrowed Time
People must abandon the mad idea that they can borrow their way back into solvency. By Niall Ferguson.

Politics

Nothing More Than Freedom
Why minorities are estranged from conservatism. By Shelby Steele.

Hey, Big Spender
What a shock! Obama is who he said he was. By Peter Robinson.

Education

An F in Effectiveness
When it comes to schools, Obama’s stimulus is likely to lock in a set of bad policies. By Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth.

Miraculous Shortcuts
People swoon over education miracles: super teachers, infallible tests, legendary principals. But building good schools is hard, unglamorous work. By Diane Ravitch.

All Together, Now
National education standards are as desirable as ever, and perhaps as distant. By Chester E. Finn Jr.

All Twitter, No Twain
Americans may be reading online, but that’s not literature. Without the great authors, where are the great thoughts? By Diane Ravitch.

Foreign Policy

Autocrats’ Sigh of Relief
Obama is turning away from the emancipation of the Muslim world, offering no change its people can believe in. By Fouad Ajami.

Terrorism and National Security

A Witch Hunt in Wartime
Why a “truth commission” on the Bush years would sabotage America’s security successes. By Marc A. Thiessen.

Intelligence Design
Terrorists are getting very good at covering their tracks. Their pursuers must become even better at uncovering them. By Katya Drozdova.

The Media

Fighting Fair
Why it was right to dump the so-called Fairness Doctrine—and would be wrong to bring it back. By Robert Zelnick.

Medicine and Health

Here’s a Second Opinion
Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.

For the Children?
In its efforts to remove lead from children’s products, the federal government has taken a reasonable idea to absurd extremes. By Richard A. Epstein.

The Middle East

The Longest-Running Diplomatic Show
Now it’s Hillary Clinton’s turn to play “the Peacemaker.” The cast may change, but the script—anti-Semitism in the Arab world—doesn’t. By Josef Joffe.

Land of the Clenched Fist
With Hamas in charge, Gaza will never escape its ideological prison. By Amichai Magen.

Iran

Changing the Game
A game theorist looks at Iran’s intentions—and where its nuclear program is heading. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.

Pakistan

The Sick Man of South Asia
Pakistan is fighting for its life. The nation needs to figure out what it is and what it stands for. By Tunku Varadarajan.

Values

Must See TV?
So television is bad, but letting the tube go dark would be even worse . . . By Diana Schaub.

Interviews

You Call This an Economic Policy?*
Hoover senior fellow Robert J. Barro climbs into the ring for another round. By Conor Clarke.

Notes of Caution
More entitlements, less responsibility. Hoover senior fellow Gary S. Becker on notions of financial rescue. By Mary Anastasia O’Grady.

Managing American Hegemony
Whether the United States will remain the world’s dominant power is a question that will be answered by . . . the United States. A talk with Hoover fellow Kori N. Schake. By Christian Brose.

Resilient Force
General Jack Keane, who helped create the surge, says the war in Iraq was well worth it. By Peter Robinson.

History and Culture

Better Angels
Why Abraham Lincoln matters—even now. By Shelby Steele.

How Historians Repeat Themselves
The joys and challenges of mentoring the historians of the future. By Norman M. Naimark.

NATO at Sixty
An alliance for the purposes of defense has grown into an alliance for the purposes of democracy. By Zoltan Barany.

Hoover Archives

Ideas and Consequences
Celebrating the ninetieth birthday of the Hoover Institution, a revolutionary place. By Nicholas Siekierski.

A Better Look at Lithuania
Lithuania's history is not a closed book. The Hoover Archives holds a number of rich sources. By Inga Arlauskaite.