When Greece had its government debt crisis a decade ago, it received several rounds for bailout funding from the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
This paper on India has been included in the Hoover Institution’s important project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism, The Human Prosperity Project, because India represents a unique case of socialism and democracy in conflict. Following India’s birth to freedom and independence in 1947, its democracy was dominated by socialist, planned-economy policies that failed for nearly seventy years to achieve the levels of growth its people desperately needed to rise out of poverty.
Strategika Issue 67 is now available online. Strategika is an online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past—the efforts of the Military History Working Group of historians, analysts, and military personnel focusing on military history and contemporary conflict.
Explore how the pursuit of peace has been a pillar of the Hoover Institution since its founding and Herbert Hoover’s direction to “constantly and dynamically point the road to peace."
[Subscription Required] German-American friendship has always stopped where Russian gas began to flow. Even 40 years ago, with the Cold War in full swing and the U.S. protecting West Germany with some 220,000 GIs, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt went mano a mano with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan over a barter deal for trillions of cubic feet of Soviet gas.
The Trump drawdown of U.S. troops in Europe is not the end of the alliance, but part of a familiar story. America’s military presence has been contested from Week 1—make that February 4–11, 1945. At Yalta, Franklin D. Roosevelt assured Joseph Stalin that the United States would soon depart from Europe. Its troops—three million at the peak—would all be gone in two years.
First Egypt in 1979, then Jordan in 1904, and now the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have signed peace agreements with Israel, establishing normal diplomatic relations, and launching cooperative economic and other arrangements.
In their recent book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case and Nobel economics prizewinner Angus Deaton, both emeritus economists at Princeton University, show that the death rate for middle-age whites without a college degree bottomed out in 1999 and has risen since.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas says we need a reliable news media and scientists who are able to question, debate, and test theories to get the best outcomes.
interview with Cole Bunzelvia Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Cole Bunzel joins a panel to discuss three Tactical Interrogation Reports (TIRs) about the leader of the Islamic State, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla.
In an open letter, 98 Stanford faculty members accuse their Stanford colleague and White House COVID-19 advisor Scott Atlas of “falsehoods and misrepresentations,” claiming that “many of his opinions and statements run counter to established science.” Surprisingly, the alleged falsehoods are not mentioned, making scientific discourse difficult.
Almost immediately after being named as an advisor to the president, Dr. Scott Atlas has been the victim of unfair and unfounded media attacks attempting to discredit him.
A doctor who says the clampdown over coronavirus is too draconian has been censored by YouTube. It deleted an interview given by Dr Scott Atlas of the prestigious Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California because it did not conform to the World Health Organization’s position on the pandemic.
The U.S. is still globally dominant in many areas including finance and technology — but it’s not clear if the world’s largest economy remains the leading power that other countries look up to, said experts during a debate at the Singapore Summit.
President Trump and White House coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas on Wednesday slammed what Atlas said were "heinous" fears being spread about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine, stating that any vaccine distributed by the U.S. government will be safe.
On September 4, Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent out a memo to federal agencies detailing a directive from the president that “federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions.”
This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Kelly Smith, founder and CEO of Prenda, a company that helps create flexible learning environments known as microschools. Often described as the “reinvention of the one-room school house,” microschools combine homeschooling, online education, smaller class sizes, mixed age-level groupings, flipped classrooms, and personalized learning.
“60 Minutes” has been the gold standard for newsmagazine television programs since its inception in 1968. On Sunday, September 20 the show premieres its 53rd season. Correspondent Scott Pelley has been with CBS News since 1989 and has traveled the world as a reporter for “60 Minutes” for the last two decades.
