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Walter E. Williams, 1936–2020

Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Walter E. Williams, prominent economist, commentator, and professor at George Mason University, died on Tuesday, December 1. He was 84.

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Hoover Acquires Papers Relating to French Communist Leader Marcel Cachin

Thursday, December 3, 2020

The Hoover Institution has been given an important collection related to the French Communist politician and editor Marcel Cachin (1869–1958), collected by student scholar Margaret Lynch Silsby, who first started researching Cachin during her graduate training at Columbia in the mid-1940s.

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David G. Booth Endows Senior Fellowship In Honor Of Edward Lazear At The Hoover Institution

Thursday, December 3, 2020
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Hoover Institution today announced a new Senior Fellowship in Economics in honor of the late economist Edward P. Lazear, made possible by the generosity of David G. Booth.

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Q&A: Michael Auslin On Foreign Policy Challenges Confronting The American Presidency

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

In this interview, Michael Auslin, the Payson R. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in contemporary Asia, discussed the publication of America in the World 2020, a new special edition of the Great Decisions book series, published by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). The volume of essays, coedited by Auslin and Noel V. Lateef, FPA president, is directed towards informing citizens about US foreign policy and features contributions by eleven Hoover fellows.

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The Hoover Education Success Initiative Releases “Towards Equitable School Choice” An Evidence-Based Policy Paper Examining The Various Forms Of Public And Private School Choice In America

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The fourth education policy brief to be released by the Hoover Education Success Initiative in 2020, it comprehensively examines the past, present and future of school choice at the federal, state, and local levels, making recommendations on how state governments should proceed amidst uncertainty.

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North American Forum Annual Meeting Addresses Competitiveness, Trade, Energy and Security Issues

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Washington, DC

The North American Forum, a community of Canadian, Mexican, and US thought leaders who work to advance a shared vision of North America and to contribute to regional solutions among the three neighbors, held its tenth annual meeting in Washington, DC, during November 13-15. 

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In This Arab Time, by Ajami
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In In This Arab Time, Ajami marries historical analysis and personal perspective to inform thinking on current Middle East struggle

Thursday, November 13, 2014
Stanford

The Hoover Institution Press today released In This Arab Time, by the late Fouad Ajami, Hoover Institution senior fellow. In this collection of thought-provoking essays, Ajami  brings into focus the current struggles of the Middle East through detailed historical analysis and a personal perspective immersed in the literature of the time and place.

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Stan Polovets Joins the Board of Overseers at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Russian-born Businessman and Philanthropist will Support the Strengthening of Hoover’s Analytical Capabilities and Development of Soviet Dissident Archives

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Across the Great Divide: New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis

In Across the Great Divide: New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis, Taylor and Baily Bring Forth Differing Viewpoints to Examine the Financial Crisis of 2008 and How to Avoid Future Crises

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Hoover Institution Press and Brookings Institution today released Across the Great Divide: New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis, edited by Hoover Institution Senior Fellow John Taylor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Martin Neil Baily. 

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Hoover Institution Golden State Poll Finds Brown Headed for Reelection; Voters Withholding Support for Affirmative Action and Several Initiatives on the November Ballot

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

With the 2014 election just one week away, the Hoover Institution’s Golden State Poll finds California governor Jerry Brown holds a seventeen-point lead over his Republican challenger, businessman Neel Kashkari. Voters’ support for Brown on Election Day, however, hovers slightly below a bare majority, at 48 percent; 16 percent of self-identified registered voters were still undecided about whom to support for governor.

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