In a blog post yesterday, "Standing with Rand? Maybe Take a Seat," Independent Institute Research Fellow and recent George Mason University Ph.D. Abigail Hall makes a case against supporting Rand Paul, but then generalizes and makes it a case against supporting any politicians.
Play the Hand You're Dealt. One of the things I do around the margins with my students--it's not part of the curriculum--is give them my "words of wisdom" about dealing in the world.
The Federal Reserve refuses to raise interest rates despite clear signals that the labor market may be overheating. Thursday's jobless claims report was so low that it lit up Twitter.
If, like me, you were not invited to this year's Aspen Security Forum, you're probably thinking right now, "Gee, I wish someone would post all the videos of the great events I'm not getting to attend."
Updated 50 years after the movie’s original release, the current Republican presidential field would seem a 2015 version of The Sound Of Music, complete with this ditty: “How Do You Solve a Problem Like The Donald?”
Two of California’s historical ballot initiatives – one brought by government outsiders to limit government revenue, the other brought by government insiders to expand government revenue – face an uncertain future if changes to these laws appear on the 2016 ballot.
On July 23 – roughly five years from the date the Dodd-Frank bill was passed – I had the opportunity to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about whether we have fully eliminated the risks of bank bailouts, and particularly the “too-big-to-fail” problem.
Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s most recent article in The New Yorker, entitled “Joe Gould’s Teeth,” explores the long and mysterious history of Gould’s life and his relationships to the literati of his day, including E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, and, most importantly, the journalist Joseph Mitchell, who first publicized Gould’s purported “Oral History of Our Time” manuscript in the pages of the New Yorker in 1942.
Hoover has welcomed several researchers from Poland this summer, in part thanks to the Silas Palmer Fellowship program inaugurated by the Library and Archives. The Silas Palmer fellows included Maciej Milczanowski, Michał Przeperski and Nicholas Siekierski.
Hoover Institution fellow Bill Evers discusses how the national English and mathematics standards that are part of Common Core actually violate several federal laws
Labor leaders are celebrating the decision to raise New York’s minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 per hour, but economists say the results for low-income workers will be mixed.
Well, looks like the terrorists finally have won. The satirical French paper Charlie Hebdo announced it would no longer draw pictures of Muhammad, just six months after Islamic terrorists stormed their Paris offices and massacred the staff.
Despite new polls showing her unpopularity in swing states, Hillary Clinton is headed to South Carolina to meet with local officials and holding a forum on the economy.
When the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a new education bill to replace the increasingly unworkable and unpopular No Child Left Behind law last week, one key amendment lay on the cutting room floor.
Uber is completely revolutionizing the market for urban transportation. Could a similar revolution occur in other fields, including the market for medical care?
In 1937, Dale Carnegie wrote the seminal classic, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” It is a concept worthy of revisiting as the American Jewish community joins an unwinnable battle that will embolden its enemies and depletes its bench of hard fought alliances here and on the global stage.
