"Municipal bond investors have to share the burden in state bailouts" writes my colleague Josh Rauh, and he is exactly right. Background: State and local governments borrowed a lot of money and blew it.
Do we want it to be transformed into 'migration,' where inflated promises, smugglers, and troubled homelands will encourage more people to seek alleged promised lands?
In 2017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. The center found similarly negative Trump coverage at other major news outlets.
The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual speaker series based on the scholarly research and commentary written by Hoover fellows participating in the Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism. Tune in on Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 11:00 am PT.
Taiwan’s new representative in Washington, Hsiao Bi-khim, articulated her country’s security interests in advancing the cause of democracy during a Hoover Institution virtual event on Friday, September 11, 2020. The program was presented by Hoover’s Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region, chaired by Senior Fellow Larry Diamond and managed by Research Fellow Glenn Tiffert.
John Lewis was recently laid to rest and as his coffin was being walked out of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, everyone in the pews was asked to dance to Lewis’s favorite Pharrell Williams song, “Happy.” Solemnity mixed with sheer joy that day to span the spectrum of Lewis’s life — from struggle to song. Congressman Lewis loved this song and it showed.
President Donald Trump’s recent warning about the influence of the defense industry has sparked comparisons to Dwight Eisenhower’s assertion that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” When Eisenhower spoke those words in his 1961 farewell address, he believed that the massive growth of America’s peacetime armed forces had given them and the defense industry enough power that they could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”
President Trump’s decision to return the U.S 2nd Cavalry Regiment currently stationed in Germany to American soil (6,500 troops), as well as to redeploy mostly Air Force units from Germany to Italy and command headquarters to Belgium and Poland (another 5,600), will have mostly modest positive military consequences and has already benefited America diplomatically. The military consequences are modest because U.S forces in Europe have long since ceased to be potential combatants.
The Digital Revolution and the evolution of the information environment have ushered in an unprecedented era of information conflict, with revisionist states using hostile, disinformation-based influence campaigns to subvert democratic governance and the rule of law. International law has struggled to keep pace. This essay argues for an interpretation of international law that would consider strategic, covert deception as a form of prohibited coercion in violation of the rule of nonintervention.
NASA is creating financial incentives for private companies to market lunar resources. This could be a first step to developing lunar mining capabilities. The biggest benefit of the program, though, is precedent. It puts the U.S. government’s imprimatur on space commerce. Given the ambiguities in public international space law, this precedent has the potential to steer space policy and commerce in a pro-market direction.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses California aflame (and the close call of his home), the “un-news” media, President Trump’s Middle East foreign-policy wins, the presidential horserace 47 days out, the big-money Left planning and bankrolling post-election violence, and tensions between Greece and Turkey.
Hoover Institution fellow Bjorn Lomborg discusses the California wildfires and notes that the fires have fairly little to do with climate change, and almost everything to do with the fact that we haven’t managed our forests well.
Hoover Institution fellow Charles Plosser discusses the central bank's policy to hold interest rates near zero and signaled they would stay there for at least three years, vowing to delay tightening until the U.S. gets back to maximum employment and 2% inflation.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses Camp Kinda, a free online summer resource that was designed to keep students engaged and curious while they were stuck at home.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli says that schools need valid, reliable measures of how much kids have learned as well as how much they haven't learned.
Shelby Steele, a conservative author and Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote and narrated a new documentary, “What Killed Michael Brown?”, exploring race and violence in America.
If you were comparing immigrants to the United States from Algeria and Israel and were asked which group had higher levels of education and skills, you'd probably assume the answer is the Israelis. After all, the average Israeli has completed 12.5 years of schooling, compared with 7.6 years for Algerians, according to the American Community Survey.
The Black Lives Matter movement is dominating the headlines, but just as every action has an equal and opposite reaction, Black conservatives have never been more visible.
