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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.
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The Perils Of Isolationism
In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in processing the intelligence failure that led to the attack. Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to Imperial Japan’s attack in making the case that Washington should deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban, saying, “Decent countries don’t launch surprise attacks.”
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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.
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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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Good Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery
By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.
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Axis 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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Benjamin Ginsberg On 60 Minutes
Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg discusses the integrity of the elections.
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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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The Comeback: The NYT's Bret Stephens And The GoodFellows Recap The ’24 Election
Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office in a manner few saw coming while progressive institutions (legacy media, Hollywood, wokeism, and a tired Democratic playbook) take a beating.
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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.
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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?
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The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, And Andrew Roberts
The most prestigious and popular historians in the world have appeared together in a public forum for the first time to discuss: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role in World War II, the false premise of the 1619 Project, the Cold War, World War II, and more.
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