In 2014 the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice, acting together, sent every school district a letter asking local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.
“The Obama administration is developing a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who have benefited from their government’s cyber theft of valuable U.S. trade secrets,” reports Ellen Nakashima’s in the Post.
This essay examines the 2009 Fort Hood terrorist attack with two goals in mind: illuminating the organizational weaknesses inside the Defense Department which led officials to miss the insider terrorist threat; and contributing to a growing body of theoretical research examining the connection between underlying organizational weaknesses and disasters.
“The North Pole is Ours!” read the headline of Rossiiskaya Gazeta -- the Russian government daily newspaper of record -- on May 20. In today’s circumstances of heightened tensions with the West, Vladimir Putin needs victories, which may also make the country less pragmatic and more concerned about identity politics and symbols.
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Are human beings naturally cooperative or selfish? Can people thrive without government law? Paul Robinson of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Pirates, Prisoners and Lepers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts the ideas in his book.
I spent part of Sunday catching up on Wall Street Journals that had piled up when I was at my cottage in Canada. Some highlights, in chronological order.
My usual custom when writing about Medicare and Social Security finances is to simply present the relevant data instead of discussing others’ commentaries about the programs.
Away from England's shores, I have watched Labour's leadership contest at a distance and, so far, in silence. But I will be home imminently, and the prospect has given me words.
In a response to, I think, me, although he doesn't make it clear whether he's responding to me, Robert P. Murphy writes: I realized from Levi's comment that people are genuinely misunderstanding what I was trying to say in that op ed.
This week on Rational Security: We speculate wildly on how China’s economic free fall could affect U.S. national security? What does international law have to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
His major early contribution was to show that stock markets are efficient (See efficient capital markets). The term "efficient" here does not mean what it normally means in economics--namely, that benefits minus costs are maximized.
Hoover Institution fellow John Taylor explains why he thinks the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates in September and why it could be a mistake to wait until the end of 2015.
Hoover Institution fellow Harvey Mansfield gives his insights on French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and discusses key themes in Tocqueville’s work, including the nature of democracy and his views of America.
Everything about education system sounds great, but can we really turn words into action? Here at the WorkingDad classroom, we love the idea of the 2015 National Summit on Education Reform, but we'd really love to see changes. Safe to say we'll be following the conference closely.
Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukraine famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, has died at 98, having outlived the Soviet Union—which came into being in the year of his birth, 1917—and which he helped to bring down with information.
Lillian M. Lowery, who has served as Maryland's state education commissioner since 2012, is leaving to head up an Ohio-based education non-profit with a focus on early-childhood education.
Although the exact timing remains uncertain, at some point over coming months the monetary policies of the world’s leading central banks will almost certainly diverge further, as the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England tighten, while the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the People’s Bank of China continue to ease.
The undertow of China's slackening economy and the mounting tide of refugees pushing through border after border in Europe put the world on edge this week. After spiraling down, volatile stock markets rallied back, for now.
An unprecedented number of Californians left for other states during the last decade, according to new tax return data from the Internal Revenue Service.
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A Russian-language website has caused a stir with a report asserting that more than 2,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
If government, academic and industry leaders have their way, Silicon Valley will soon become ground zero for a new kind of technology -- flexible electronics.
Imagine everything that you have ever cared about being “eliminated” in a fiery carnage. This is entirely possible as the world right now has the capability of destroying itself many times over – in the event a nuclear war breaks out.
