The liberal attraction to making government the sole source of health-care insurance has not abated even as the deficiencies in ObamaCare, a halfway move toward the single-payer model, have become increasingly evident. The question is whether growing signs of single-payer trouble overseas will be enough to discourage this country's flirtation with socialized medicine.
Some interesting numbers from Georgia, where a U.S. Senate race could affect the balance of power in Washington — and a governor’s race could help improve a former president’s legacy.
Cyprus is a beautiful island. But it has never recovered from the Turkish invasion of 1974. Turkish troops still control nearly 40 percent of the island -- the most fertile and formerly the richest portion.
With the confidence busting effect of watching the price gauge at the gas pump, elected officials prefer avoiding gas prices as an election year issue. Adding to the anxiety is how little control any one elected official has over gas prices.
It’s hard to imagine a place in the world where one would feel less threatened by geopolitics than Iceland. It’s an island. It’s pretty far from anywhere else. And it has very few people (the entire country has a population of only 330,000). It has not had any kind of real international conflict since the 1970s-era Cod Wars with Great Britain, which—despite the name “wars”—mostly involved fishing boats and coast guard and naval vessels ramming each other and cutting fishing nets.
Domestic spying and surveillance are rarely out of today’s headlines. How did a real-life totalitarian secret police go about watching citizens, shutting down dissent, and ensuring mass obedience? On July 24, Hoover fellow Mark Harrison brought historical records from the Hoover Archives together with modern social science to show how the KGB, the Soviet Union’s secret police, upheld the communist monopoly of power during the Cold War.
Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow Admiral Gary Roughead will discuss his Defining Idea's piece, "Don't Ignore the Indo-Pacific," on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.
If there's one thing Americans know about international tests, it's this: we aren't very good at them. In 2012, the last time 15-year-olds from 65 countries and economies took an international math test, the US ended up ranked far from the top — particularly in math, where they were 27th of 34 countries. (The rankings aren't an exact science; the US could be ranked anywhere between 23rd and 29th, according to the Organization for Economic and Community Development.)
