On Aug. 5, President Obama warned Jewish leaders invited to the White House that if his Iran deal were scuttled and the United States were compelled to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, “You’ll see Hezbollah rockets falling on Tel Aviv.” Although it is hard to take the president’s threat to use force at face value, his grim analysis is probably correct.
Do you remember Lewis "Scooter" Libby? In 2003, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to investigate allegations that Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, unlawfully disclosed the covert status of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
The California State Legislature is 85 days into a special session to figure out how to plug an estimated $6 billion to $10 billion gap in transportation maintenance and upgrade funding, and they don't have much to show for progress.
You don't have to follow Republican politics for very long to realize that Trump hit two "third rails" in one month. And yet, here he is, as I'm writing this in late August, leading all other Republican candidates for president by a big margin.
Between 2010 and 2012, more than forty states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools.
The Governance of China is an official compilation of speeches, conversations, and instructions by current PRC President and CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping on a wide range of topics relating to Chinese governance.
I have followed U.S. politics since the late 1960s when I was a teenager in Canada. I moved to the United States as a PhD student in 1972, became a resident alien in 1977, and became a U.S. citizen in 1986. I have followed U.S. politics daily since the early 1970s.
interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Hoover institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the Washington State Supreme Court's attack on charters, New York State’s Common Core review, mindfulness in education, and charter schools' impact on Georgia property values.
Although Lanhee Chen says the GOP is dealing with “very, very fundamental debates about what it means to be a Republican,” he knows better than most people what policies should be at the forefront of a conservative agenda—and how to convey those ideas to voters.
You cannot please them all. Less partisan left-of-center observers praised Jeb Bush’s tax plan for specificity, for rejecting efforts to devote all relief to top marginal rates and for helping low- and middle-income people with a healthy personal deduction and substantial increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit.
The world’s most influential security conference and trade show, the ASIS International 61st Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2015) will bring 20,000 security professionals from both the operational and cybersecurity disciplines together Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 in Anaheim, CA.
Environmental leader California says no to an ambitious goal: to cut gasoline use in half by 2030. We look at the implications for California and the world.
