Uncertainty about China’s economic prospects is roiling global markets – not least because so many questions are so difficult to answer. In fact, China’s trajectory has become almost impossible to anticipate, owing to the confusing – if not conflicting – signals being sent by policymakers.
Panic is setting in. “Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand … exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany,” writes my Harvard colleague, political theorist Danielle Allen.
A star has at least five points. So I was told by a senior colleague at a time in my life when I was desperately trying to figure out how to burnish just one. Even by that standard, James S. Coleman is securely situated in a celestial constellation, as five points can be discerned even if one looks only at his research on schools.
As a surprising number of Americans “feel the Bern” for a self-described “democratic socialist” candidate for president, even more shocking polls show Americans drifting toward socialism itself.
The critiques of Gerald Friedman's analysis of the Sanders economic plan continue. The latest and most detailed and careful so far is by David and Christina Romer.
President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis—more so than typical lame-duck presidents. His hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships.
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Now that February’s round of presidential primaries and caucuses are over – four states in four distinct pockets of the country – the road to the White House is back at its starting line.
Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait, a textbook case of successful military intervention for one primary reason: The United States government forswore regime change. That Middle Eastern event contrasts dramatically with those since 9/11.
As the use of technology in schools grows rapidly—whether in blended-learning environments, for project-based learning, or just because it’s the fad du jour—how much time students should spend learning on a computer is a point of contention. More and more people seem to agree that digital learning in K–12 classrooms works best when it is used with the oversight of a teacher.
Last Thursday’s hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs made clear that the Republicans in Congress are still steaming about the Obama administration’s narrowing of Congress’s recent restrictions to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) related to Iran.
Alison Wolf author of The XX Factor, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the changing roles of women in the family and the workplace. Wolf argues that highly educated women are increasingly similar to highly educated men in their lifestyles and choices while becoming very different from less educated women.
On June 23, 2016, British voters will decide whether Britain should remain a member state of the European Union, or exit and return to its pre-union status.
Two things you’re going to hear in abundance on Tuesday night: the returns from the various states participating in the mammoth undertaking that is Super Tuesday: as a result of those results, who has the inside track on becoming America’s 45th President.
In 1983 Sharon Tennison, a US citizen, launched the Center for Citizen Initiatives, an NGO dedicated to improving US-Soviet relations from below. Her work is now in its fourth decade. In support of that work she has spoken up for more understanding of Russia in the West.
Jonathan Meer and Jeremy West have found that increases in the minimum wage destroy jobs, not so much by destroying current jobs as by reducing the growth rate of new jobs.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the GOP debate and whether Cruz and Rubio made a difference in slowing down Trump. Is Trump vulnerable or inevitable?
Hoover Institution fellow Richard Epstein discusses replacing Scalia, the FBI vs. Apple, the 17th Amendment, and whether cameras should be allowed in the Supreme Court.
The never-ending controversy over Peyton Manning’s backside has several uncomfortable tensions at work: factual uncertainty, failed accountability and the urge to seek a correction now for something 20 years ago. But all of it amounts to a supercharged distraction from the real question: Why aren’t we talking about current events at Tennessee instead of a murky one 20 years ago?
The good news is that the economy is growing at 2 percent and that there's no recession in sight (barring a complete collapse of profits). The bad news is that the economy is growing at 2 percent. It's been doing so for nearly 15 years under Democratic and Republican administrations.
Writing in the Sunday Times (of London) today, Thatcherite professor and Mitt Romney backer Niall Ferguson has claimed that the populism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump needs to be “stamped” on.
What do you get a Nobel Prize winner and global ambassador for his 70th birthday? Well, if you’re Caltech, you invite four other Nobel laureates and other leaders in their fields to map out the future of science and humanity in an all-day discussion at the Pasadena campus.
At the 1942 Academy Awards, Orson Welles won the Best Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane. What he did with the statuette next remained a mystery for decades. When at last the mystery was solved, the Oscar sparked litigation between Welles’s daughter, the Academy, and a cinematographer with dozens of adult films to his name.
The anti-Semitic hysteria on many elite American campuses (the veil of anti-Zionism now thrown off) is belatedly becoming the subject of major concern in the Jewish community. As well it should. The young people of this community, in what should be idyllic years, are being exposed, often for the first time in their lives, to unreasoning hatred.
After first broaching the subject of the populism of Pope Francis and Donald Trump last September, I admit to being provocative, perhaps excessively so. Then the pope and Trump engaged in a controversy over building walls, with Trump initially taking exception to having his religious faith questioned.
Tired of taking potshots from Bernie Sanders supporters at the California Democratic Party's convention this weekend, Dana Smith tried to make nice with one antagonist.
Top Senate Republicans have vowed to reject any candidate that President Obama nominates to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant Supreme Court seat — GOP leaders have even said they'll refuse to meet with the nominee.
In these times of global turmoil, join a conversation with four international affairs experts to confront some of the most difficult issues we face today in a special OpenXChange event: "When the World is Aflame" on Tuesday, Mar. 1, at 7 pm in Cemex Auditorium.
