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Education Futures Council Unveils Report ‘Ours To Solve - Once, And For All’ Highlighting Path To Revitalize Public Education In America
The Education Futures Council (EFC) has released its report, “Ours to Solve, Once - and For All,” to address the public education crisis in America. The report outlines a new framework for revitalizing public K–12 education across the nation.
Restoring Confidence In Congress: Will The House Come To Order?
By most metrics – a 16% job-approval rating, failing to deliver budgets much less conducting itself in a stately manner – the U.S. House of Representatives isn’t living up to the Founding Fathers’ ideals.
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Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024
To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.
Learn moreGood Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery
By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.
Learn moreAxis Of Aggressors: H.R. McMaster On Defending America’s Interests
An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.
Learn moreThe Status Of Possible Legislative Changes To Direct Primary Care (DPC) Arrangements
DPCs are the rare bipartisan health care reform that everyone loves, once they hear about them.
Learn moreThe State of American Citizenship 2023
We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.
Learn moreBenjamin Ginsberg On 60 Minutes
Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg discusses the integrity of the elections.
Learn moreCommentary on the News
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.
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Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
Read MoreWestern Democracies Face Not Only Hamas The Physical Organization But Also Hamas The Idea, Part Of A Broader Islamist Infrastructure
California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
Read MoreCalifornia’s Pendulum Inches Toward The Center, Though Not Its Political Leaders
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Free Speech In European (And Other) Democracies, With Prof. Jacob Mchangama
How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to “hate speech,” blasphemy, and misinformation?
Economic Growth, De-Population, And Macroeconomics With UPenn Econ Professor Jesus Fernández-Villaverde
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde joins Jon Hartley to discuss the economic history and the future of economic growth, business cycles, drivers of the early 2020s inflation, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium and vector autoregressive models.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Trump’s Cabinet And Staffing Selections
President-elect Trump is filling out his cabinet and key staff positions. Which ones are strong and which ones are not?
US-China Policy In Trump 2.0
Elizabeth Economy sits down with former Trump and Obama officials, Matt Pottinger and Evan Medeiros.
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