Anyone who has spent serious time within the U.S. public education system would likely agree that there are too many chefs in the school governance kitchen.
This week, we friends of France celebrate the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in 1944. Four years earlier, the Wehrmacht’s combined arms had roared through the Ardennes forest from the Netherlands, bypassing from the north France’s eastern line of defenses.
To the assumption that there’s but one Democrat in the White House who can ride to the party’s rescue and save it from the comedy/tragedy that is Hillary Clinton’s presidential effort — his name being Vice President Joe Biden — I’d like to suggest an alternative.
The U.S.-Iran “agreement” of 2015—its genesis, the negotiations that led to it, and its likely consequences—is comprehensible only in terms of a set of ideas peculiar to the post-WWI era, which distinguishes it from previous historical examples.
In the present postmodern world, we are told that there is no such thing as a biologically distinct gender. Instead, gender is now socially constructed. It can be defined by the individual in almost any way he or she sees fit.
Governor Jerry Brown celebrated last week when a recently published study - from researchers affiliated with Columbia University, the University of Idaho, and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies - determined climate change is, in fact, a contributor to the state's drought.
Austrian economist Robert P. Murphy writes: As shocking as these developments [drops in stock prices and increased volatility] may be to some analysts, those versed in the writings of economist Ludwig von Mises have been warning for years that the Federal Reserve was setting us up for another crash.
The turning point in Williamson's thinking about markets and firms happened when he was an economist in 1966-67 with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses education on the campaign trail, an appetite for gifted schooling, racial opinion gaps on testing, and how teacher expectations vary by race.
Energy security and cyberterrorism will top Condoleezza Rice’s agenda during a trip to Orlando next month. The former U.S. Secretary of State will headline the 38th World Energy Engineering Congress, coined the nation’s largest energy conference.
In a recent interview, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested the possibility of reconciling the different positions of those involved in the crisis in Ukraine, raising hopes that a resolution could be brokered peacefully.
Even as Washington touts its counterterrorism partnerships with Moscow, evidence points to Putin's intelligence service practically helping the Islamic State.
One thing that I've repeatedly noted about the recent stock-market crash is that it hasn't really spread to bonds, which to the casual observer looks like a reason to doubt worries about bond market liquidity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Thursday to locate the first internationally-controlled bank of low-enriched uranium in the ex-Soviet nation to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry underscored at a U.N. disarmament conference on Wednesday the need to visit Hiroshima, one of the two cities hit by the U.S. atomic bombings in 1945, to understand the reality of nuclear weapons.
A new Brookings Institution report says financial tech is helping to close the economic gender gap and connect marginalized communities that lack access to banks.
