John Goodman and Devon Herrick have a good essay on where we are with health insurance. The central impetus of Obamacare was not to insure more people.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson warns that in the future impeachment will be used as a vote of no confidence and become a political weapon leaving a lot of collateral damage.
Democracy is a test. You can’t just wing it and you can’t just skip it. It requires study and it is strongest when everyone participates on test day, which is every day.
interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the second installment of our Research Deep Dive series, this one focusing on school discipline reform.
Among advocates of immigration restriction, it’s almost an article of faith that newcomers from rich countries are more desirable than those from poor countries. In early 2018, President Donald Trump reportedly expressed a desire for more immigrants from Norway and fewer from countries such as Haiti, labeling the latter with an expletive. Writing in 1896, restrictionist Francis Walker made a similar argument, calling East European immigrants “beaten men from beaten races.”
Mumbai’s chefs were quick to spot the latest threat facing India’s economy. As they foraged for ingredients in Crawford market, where hawkers sell fruit, vegetables and other kitchen staples, they began hearing prices quoted not per kilogram, but per quarter-kilo—a forlorn attempt to mask price increases.
This week, Donald Trump has been president for three years. So with a three-year track record, how is the "Trump economy" doing? Did Trump dramatically change economic trends, or did he merely continue existing trends from the Obama administration?
From the USA to Australia to Brazil to Canadian provinces like Ontario and Alberta, so-called populists are denying climate change and rolling back measures to stop it. In France, there was been a revolt of gilets jaunes (the yellow vests every car in France has to carry for emergencies), originally outraged over an increase in gas taxes.
