For decades, there has been widespread anxiety over how, when or whether the educational test score gap between white and non-white youngsters could be closed. But that gap has already been closed by the Success Academy charter school network in New York City.
In regard of China, economic relations seem to be more important to the EU than freedom and democracy. Is Europe still a reliable partner in the transatlantic alliance? Or will the Brussels-Berlin-Beijing axis dominate?
Yesterday we analyzed the government’s lawsuit that seeks to enjoin John Bolton (and, as a practical matter, his publisher and booksellers, too) from publishing or selling his book, The Room Where It Happened, and to recover any profits he receives from the book.
The calendar says that only 137 days remain until Election Day, so why not talk about the next presidential referendum after that, given that at least one party should be looking for a new standard-bearer come November 2024 (and maybe both parties, depending on what the future holds for Joe Biden)?
Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus, and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the history of pandemics, the geopolitics of Covid 19, US elections, the future of the market economy, and questions about globalization and de-globalization, as well as Niall Fergusons's book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses John Bolton's new book and talks about whether President Trump can block Bolton's book because it includes classified information.
Hoover Institution fellow Kevin Hassett says we're looking for an acceleration of the economy over the summer and then a real boom in the second half of the year.
Leaders need to act with honesty, empathy and decisiveness in times of crisis, Retired Gen. Jim Mattis told a virtual crowd of Tri-Citians and beyond on Thursday.
Our country is not perfect, however when we as a culture or a society see something unjust, we work hard to fix it. We did it with slavery, child labor, civil rights and women’s rights to name a few. This is why the whole country was united in the belief that George Floyd’s death was criminal. Everyone who saw that video was horrified. Almost every police officer agreed according to published news reports. After that, people of all ages, races and backgrounds wanted to rise up and decry the injustice.
MOSCOW — For the year and a half that former Marine Paul Whelan was held in a Russian prison on espionage charges, there was speculation that securing his release would ultimately involve a prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.
CHULA VISTA, California — Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest intellectuals in the world today. Back in 1999, he wrote a remarkable book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
The last thing I need right now is to have my head lopped off by angry Jacobins of the cultural revolution over yet another column mocking CHAZ or CHOP or whatever they want to call that Leninist compound in downtown Seattle.
Comments made by President Donald Trump during a roundtable meeting in May have prompted speculation that Americans might receive a domestic travel credit as part of a second round of stimulus payments.
According to the president’s senior economic adviser Kevin Hassett, consumer spending is ready to bounce back in the United States. On Wednesday, Hassett announced spending trends are quickly returning to where they were before the pandemic.
As covid-19 spread around the world, many governments prescribed the economic equivalent of a medically induced coma. Halting the transmission of the disease meant shutting down economic activity. But to restore economies to health quickly, connections between workers and firms needed to be maintained, so that activity could pick up from where it had left off. It seems increasingly clear, though, that not everything will return to normal once covid-19 is eventually beaten. As economies adjust, there is likely to be a substantial reallocation of people and resources.
FPRI Senior Fellow Michael R. Auslin and FPRI Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics Robert D. Kaplan will discuss Dr. Auslin’s new book, Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, which examines key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world, including the history of American strategy in Asia, from the eighteenth century through today. Taken together, Auslin’s essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world’s two most populous nations, India and China.
