Stanford political scientist Amy Zegart says insider threats and surprise attacks on American national security are increasing and rooted in organizational inflexibility. She examines the lessons learned in the case of the 2009 Fort Hood terrorist attack.
Hillary Clinton's second race for the presidency is only about a quarter through, but she already seems to be causing general fatigue. The lurid revelations about the Clinton Foundation proved that it was not so much a charity as a huge laundering operation.
It seems like everybody has something bad to say about Donald Trump—everyone except Republican voters who are speaking through the polls. One headline says he is a “mortal threat” to the GOP.
At first blush, Mitt Romney and Joe Biden have little in common. Romney’s the son of a former governor of Michigan and presidential candidate, made a killing in the private sector as a venture capitalist, then went on to govern Massachusetts.
If you want to enrage Vladimir Putin, publish an article on Russian casualties in Ukraine. Putin unequivocally declared, on his Direct Line broadcast to the Russian people on April 16, that “the question of whether Russian troops are present in Ukraine…I can tell you outright and unequivocally that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine.”
Though it was meant as irony, there was an essential (if accidental) truth behind the speech [in the movie American Beauty]. The technology behind plastic grocery bags is so useful it won a Nobel Prize.
Last month, Campbell Brown and the American Federation for Children will host an education policy summit in New Hampshire with six of the seventeen GOP presidential contenders. (A similar forum among Democratic candidates is scheduled for October in Iowa.) Here we present six education policy themes—and associated infographics—that we hope the candidates embrace.
Gen. David Petraeus has a new plan for fighting ISIS. Is it smart or is it totally nuts? Tamara talks about a new article by William McCants that takes us deep inside the mind and menace of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared “caliph” of the Islamic State.
Over at PJ Media, Rich Moran writes: Since there is a pretty good possibility that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel are likely to "take" a nuclear bomb down the gullet thanks to the ignorant naivete of the president and sycophants like [Gwen] Ifil, that particular tweet might come back to haunt Ms. Ifill one day.
Kim Davis, the Rowan (Kentucky) County clerk, is in the spotlight this week for ignoring a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples seeking to wed. She claims that doing so would violate her Christian faith and her religious liberties. On Tuesday, she added that she was acting “under God’s authority.”
interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses education in New Orleans, school governance, Common Core-aligned assignments, and charter school openings in NYC.
interview with George H. Nashvia New Books in American Studies
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
George H. Nash is an independent scholar, historian, and lecturer. As a scholar of American conservative thought and biographer of Herbert Hoover, Nash edited The Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and its Aftermath (Hoover Institution Press, 2013).
I once had a conversation with a young journalism school graduate who told me he wanted to make more money. His sole argument for a higher wage was that he had a good friend whose salary was much higher.
While some Wall Street analysts now think the probability of the U.S. economy going into recession are nearly 50 percent, Canada is already there. That bad news comes as Canada gears up for a general election in October and at a time when the slide in global oil prices could spell continuing trouble for Canada's energy-dependent economy.
They converged last week on a red barn here in the shadows of the Grand Tetons, a small but passionate group of free-market thinkers and conservative activists hoping to convince the Republican Party that the Federal Reserve is ruining the economy.
Harvey Mansfield remarked a while back that “the job of conservatism is to save liberalism from liberals.” The left may be giving us an unintended assist with this project.
