Never has the United States elected a more accomplished man to the presidency than Herbert Clark Hoover, whose organizational genius saved millions of lives from famine and destitution. Never has the ensuing presidency been marked by worse disasters.
We have a new draft paper, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, on how extensively the president has come to control international law for the United States, and what, if anything, should be done about it. As we explain at the end of this post, one of the central questions implicated by the paper is: Does Congress care?
On November 10-11, Hoover scholars and staff participated in the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEES) in Chicago. They discussed Hoover’s rich holdings of art, photography, books, film, and documents related to the Russian Revolution.
Occasionally we encounter a simple tweak in public policy that would be a win-win -— if it weren’t for politicians, bureaucrats and stakeholders zealously guarding their self-interest. An example is a reform that would both help combat shortages of critical drugs and put downward pressure on prices: reciprocity of drug approvals between FDA and certain foreign counterparts.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expires at the end of 2017. Originally passed in 1978, FISA was amended in 2008 by the FISA Amendments Act, which added a new Title VII, providing authority, with prior court approval, for the U.S. government to target foreigners located outside the United States for intelligence collection, acquiring the intelligence from service providers located in the United States.
The Cold War Communication Project (CWCP), an outgrowth of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force and the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, organized and sponsored two panels at the Woodrow Wilson Center and another at the Library of Congress November 2-3, 2017.
quoting Amy Zegartvia Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Amy Zegart, a Stanford University expert on intelligence and national security, makes a simple but compelling point in a short, gripping Atlantic article called “The tools of espionage are going mainstream.”
