The well-known images of East Germans eagerly pouring into West Berlin on the night of November 9, 1989, have become symbols of the beginning of the end of the Cold War and, more specifically, evidence of the failure of Communist rule in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) and its socialist economic system. Yet that historic moment was only the final dramatic high point in the long history of dissatisfaction with living conditions in the eastern territory of Germany, first occupied by the Red Army during the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and, four years later, established as the GDR when, in Winston Churchill’s words, the Iron Curtain fell across the continent.
California governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order last week to ban new sales of autos powered by internal combustion engines by 2035. Why? To fight climate change. But prohibiting the internal combustion engine won’t move the climate change needle.
John Yoo is a professor at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Richard Epstein is a professor of law at NYU, a professor of law emeritus at the University of Chicago, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. In this wide-ranging discussion, recorded the day after Amy Coney Barrett accepted President Trump’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the professors discuss Barrett’s qualifications and why it was correct and proper to nominate her now—five weeks before an election.
While COVID-19 distracts the world, China is making missile moves that could put the United States and its allies at a major disadvantage. After a decade of development, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has brought its most capable conventional deterrent from the test ranges (and parade ground) to international waters, firing anti-ship ballistic missiles into the South China Sea in each of the past two years.
“Right-left” politics are no way to choose a Supreme Court justice. Nominees deserve to be evaluated—civilly—on their skill and professionalism, and their ability to navigate a complex legal environment.
It always struck me that research inside the Fed seems to produce answers closer to the views of Fed officials than does research outside of the Fed. Perhaps my experience of reading a speech by Ben Bernanke one morning and attending a workshop by a Fed economist that found exactly his guess of the (implausibly large, to me) effects of QE that afternoon colored my views.
Since 2015, President Trump has defied the post-Watergate norm of tax disclosures by presidents and presidential candidates. Now, reporting from the New York Times on nearly two decades of Trump’s tax return data has given the public a glimpse of what Trump was trying to hide. The data make plain the dangers of presidents subverting public duty for private gain, and highlight the importance of the broader conflict of interest norms that Trump has also defied.
interview with Lanhee J. Chenvia Crossing Lines with Lanhee Chen
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen is joined by Elaine Quijano of CBSN and CBS News, who moderated the general election VP debate in 2016, to discuss what it was like for her to moderate such a significant debate, how she prepared for the role, and how debates influence campaigns and elections.
From addressing how to vote safely during a pandemic to tackling disinformation and misinformation on social media, Stanford scholars examine the issues and uncertainties facing American voters as they cast their ballot in November’s general election.
Since 2012, approximately 30 lakh officials have been implicated in the anti-corruption movement, which has focused on the judiciary, finance sector, law enforcement, among others.
If one were to give the oh-so-trustworthy California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), Senator Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) any credence, one would think that, as Salon Queen Nancy said, “Mother Nature is angry” at man, and that so-called “anthropogenic climate change” is to blame for what are, undoubtedly, unprecedented fires in the United States.
