Recent days have brought severalthoughtfulcommentaries on results-based accountability in K-12 education, why it’s important, what it’s accomplished and why it needs to continue.
The current controversy over whether parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for measles is one of the painful signs of our times. Measles was virtually wiped out in the United States, years ago. Why the resurgence of this disease now?
On February 5, 2015, Anthem—a health insurance company—announced that hackers had been able to access records containing tens of millions of names, birthdays, Social Security numbers, addresses and employment data.
The late Milton Friedman was the one of the strongest and most eloquent opponents of military conscription. In all my conversations with him, though, and in all of his writing on the draft, I don't recall whether he took a stand on draft dodging.
President Obama has adopted a “light footprint” approach to battling the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and other terrorist groups. Essentially this means putting few if any American “boots on the ground,” and instead relying on training and arming proxy forces such as the Yemeni, Pakistani, or the Iraqi military while staging air strikes to eliminate terrorist leaders. How well has this approach worked historically?
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both passed bills to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project. Assuming the two houses reach agreement, a reconciled bill will soon go to President Obama. He says he will veto the legislation because he does not want to short-circuit the established process for such approvals.
Americans must be realistic about what they expect from allies. We rightly prefer to engage on a multilateral basis and with as broad a coalition as possible. But too often we find ourselves surprised, offended, and alienated when our partners, especially regional states, seem to pursue their own interests at the expense of what we see as the common good.
On Monday, the show was broadcast live from the studios at the Hoover Institution, located on the campus of Stanford Universtity in Palo Alto, California. Several respected research fellows and associates of the institution made themselves available.
Last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Former Secretary of State George Shultz joined other former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright in outlining the challenges facing U.S. national security policy. His testimony highlights the kind of strategic thinking and cogent argumentation that make Secretary Shultz such an effective leader.
Requiring charter schools to “backfill” their “empty seats” when they lose students to attrition should remain the prerogative of the school, not the state.
President Obama’s $4 trillion budget blue print for fiscal 2016 has garnered a lot of attention for its proposals for raising caps to bolster spending for defense and domestic programs largely geared to the middle class.
