The Hoover Institution is pleased to announce that Niall Ferguson will become a full-time, in-residence senior fellow as of July 2016. Ferguson has been an adjunct senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since September 2003. Ferguson comes to the Hoover Institution from Harvard University where he served as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.
Contrary to the principles of American foreign policy of the last 70 years, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry tacitly invited Russia to "help" monitor things in the Middle East.
While President Obama’s trip later this week to Roseburg, Oregon, to meet with survivors of that town’s mass-shooting is getting the lion’s share of media attention (and controversy), it’s a presidential visit afterward to San Francisco that’s arguably the more interesting look into his legacy.
The Golden State's drought presents California's leaders with a distinct opportunity: to bring all the disparate water stakeholders together to enact long-term, structural reforms to the Golden State's water system.
One of the concerns I have had about substantially expanding immigration to the United States, Canada, and other countries is that a large number of immigrants, not understanding the important role of economic freedom in raising our standards of living, will "vote it away."
In its 2015–16 term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a case that weighs the respective rights of teachers’ unions and the individuals who choose not to join them.
France's first air strike targeting Islamic State (IS) in Syria is reported to have killed 12 children recruited by the jihadist group. Their deaths have highlighted how the young populations of Syria and Iraq are being moulded into a new generation of militants, writes Jessica Stern.
Harvard History professor and famed Henry Kissinger biographer Niall C.D. Ferguson will leave Cambridge for Stanford’s Hoover Institution after 12 years, following several other of Harvard’s esteemed academics in moves out West.
Senior U.S. lawmakers have begun probing possible intelligence lapses over Moscow’s intervention in Syria, concerned that American spy agencies were slow to grasp the scope and intention of Russia’s dramatic military offensive there, U.S. congressional sources and other officials told Reuters.
New finding aids to four collections are now available through the Online Archive of California. Highlights include interviews with Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva, the papers of Hoover senior fellow Henry S. Rowen, records from the Ethiopian Project Research and Assistance Group, and conference proceedings on post-war reconstruction in Europe.
