Vladimir Putin evoked the anti-Hitler coalition in his UN Speech. He, like any Russian, understands Hitler’s fatal blunder in opening an eastern front in June of 1941.
California’s water sector is going through a paradigm shift.
Four years into a historic drought, the state has taken multiple steps to ease its impacts on our water resource availability through a series of legislative and regulatory efforts including the passage of Proposition 1 – California’s $7.5 billion water bond – the first ever comprehensive statewide groundwater law...
I talked a bit to Binyamin Applebaum about his article in the New York Times, Behaviorists Show the U.S. How to Improve Government Operations. As preparation, I read the Social and Behavioral sciences team annual report which he was covering.
Unpopular though it may be to say so, I, for one, grew exhausted by the nonstop pronouncements/commentaries of Pope Francis. The spiritual leader of 1 billion Catholics — roughly half of the world’s Christians — Francis just completed a high-profile, endlessly publicized visit to the United States.
In all, not the best of weeks for Rand Paul. Kentucky’s junior senator first had to cope with reports of a death watch underway with regard to his struggling presidential campaign.
In the latest issue of Econ Journal Watch, economists Veronique de Rugy, Ryan Daza, and Daniel B. Klein have an article titled "Why Weren't Left Economists More Opposed and More Vocal on the Export-Import Bank?" It's a good article but it doesn't really answer the question in the title.
The intuitive appeal of this oft-quoted maxim is obvious. It speaks to the conviction that all of the children in a community or a country are “our kids” and that we should want the very best for them just as we do for our own flesh and blood.
Edward Snowden has had a triumphal entry to Twitter. It's been barely 24 hours since news that he was on the social media site broke, and he's already got more than a million followers.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discuss Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch airstrikes in Syria, and whether there is any near-term solution.
Hoover Institution fellow Paul Gregory discusses his POLITICO Europe piece, “Putin’s new world order,” on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.
On September 23, senior curator Maciej Siekierski introduced Helena Paderewska: Memoirs, 1910-20 at Julin, a country estate in eastern Poland. This manor home was meaningful to Paderewska: she purchased it in 1920 to establish a school for “country girls, victims of the war,” who would learn agriculture as well as French and English. The estate survived World War II and remains intact today. Several of the individuals attending the book launch were descendants of the graduates of Paderewska’s school.
The famous French economist, and author of the bestseller, Capital In The 21st Century, Thomas Piketty, is expected to arrive in South Africa this week.
The US federal government found a clever way to make a little extra money last summer. Some vendors who provide federal agencies with goods and services as various as paper clips and translators were given a slightly different version of the form used to report rebates they owe the government.
The College Board’s 2014 curriculum framework for teaching Advanced Placement US History, the gold standard for high school history, provoked a well-deserved firestorm, as the original, neutral five-page course outline had been replaced by an ideological 90-page script.
During 24 years in the Senate, Sam Nunn earned a reputation as a pragmatic chairman of the Armed Services Committee and co-author of the landmark Nunn-Lugar nonproliferation legislation that helped secure thousands of nuclear weapons in former Soviet states.
Investing in space to build our future is the subject at hand ... Satnews' Publisher, Silvano Payne attended today's Space Technology and Investment Forum.
